Jonathan Askin, Professor at Brooklyn Law, characterizes the people of Occupy Wall Street as a 21st Century reincarnation of the What If Generation of the 1960’s Vietnam Protesters. As Askin noted, instead of asking, “what if there was a war and nobody came” today’s protesters are asking such questions as “what if we had bailed [...]
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What If
Posted in Economy, Life, Progress, tagged Change, Economy, human spirit, Learning, Progress on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Recoiling Against Ideas
Posted in Change, Life, Progress, tagged Change, Critical Thinking, Development of Self, human spirit, Progress on August 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Neal Gabler, in a New York Times article, claimed, “ideas just aren’t what they used to be. Once upon a time, they could ignite fires of debate, stimulate other thoughts, incite revolutions and fundamentally change the ways we look at and think about the world.” Grabler also argued that the cause of the reduction in [...]
Privatize Society
Posted in Economy, Life, Progress, Quality, tagged Business of business, Change, Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Economy, human spirit, Progress, Quality, relationships on July 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Just how valid is the idea that privatization of society’s services to its citizens ensures the highest quality of service to people in society? Let’s critically analyze by understanding the precepts of the private economic enterprise.
Leading With Vision
Posted in Leadership, Management, Progress, Quality, tagged Change, Complexity, Critical Thinking, Leadership, Learning, management, Progress, Quality, Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking on June 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A New York Times article, Lessons in Longevity From I.B.M., by Steve Lohr used IBM reaching the 100-year old mark to call attention to practices that contribute to an organization’s longevity. A noteworthy point made is that past success can impede future success. The article seems to suggest that all companies will lose their dominance [...]
Total Ecology Economics
Posted in Change, Economy, Life, Progress, tagged Business of business, Change, Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Economy, human spirit, Moral Values, Progress, Systems Thinking on June 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Because economic theory and practice touches much of life in society, its practice has far-reaching implications. In a recent New York Times OP-ED article Thomas Friedman describes the effects of our consumer-driven growth model of economics upon our future.
Fearing The Bogyman
Posted in Life, Problem Solving, Progress, tagged Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Progress on June 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
If you hear a falsehood enough over a period of time you come to believe it to be true; after all if it wasn’t true then why would so many be saying it is so if it wasn’t!
A Viable Society Requires A Viable Citizenry
Posted in Economy, Life, Progress, tagged Business of business, Critical Thinking, Economy, human spirit, Moral Values, Progress, Systems Thinking on June 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Raising of the Middle Class In a recent research report (Addressing the Problem of Stagnant Wages) Frank Levy and Tom Kochan note: “In the three decades after World War II, a central feature of the American economy was a mass upward mobility in which each generation lived better than the last, and workers experienced earnings [...]
Beyond The Bottom Line
Posted in Economy, Morality/Ethics, Progress, tagged Business of business, Change, Economy, Ethical Principles, human spirit, Moral Values, Progress, Quality on May 29, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Until business becomes the means for people to actualize their potential as human beings and not just the means for the wealthy to accumulate more wealth, there will forever be a downward push against labor. The notion that if we can get people to work for less then we can be far more profitable seems [...]
Corporate Overlords
Posted in Economy, Life, Morality/Ethics, Progress, tagged Business of business, Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Economy, Ethical Principles, human spirit, Moral Values, Progress, Systems Thinking on May 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The testimony of the CEOs from America’s five leading oil companies before congress revealed their belief that the unit of survival is (solely) their organization. That is, the center of the universe is (literally) their corporation and industry and correspondingly that their importance both personally and corporately must not be questioned—they stand above it all.
Making Quality in America
Posted in Economy, Progress, Quality, tagged Economy, Leadership, Learning, management, Progress, Quality on May 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
In his New York Times column, Paul Krugman, spoke of a hint of the return of American manufacturing. In this column Mr. Krugman mentioned that Michigan which had an unemployment rate of 14.1% in August 2009 is now experiencing the improved rate of 10.3%, and as Krugman noted “still above the national average, but nonetheless [...]
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