Profit can be realized in the short-term by divesting and over the long term by investing. In the former management cuts costs, most likely by firing people and/or squeezing more out of those who remain. Because you can only squeeze people so much before the lifeblood of the people and the business runs out, this [...]
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Divest or Invest
Posted in Leadership, Management, Progress, tagged Business of business, Critical Thinking, Leadership, Learning, management, Progress, Systems Thinking on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Time to Get Heretical
Posted in Change, Economy, Life, Progress, tagged Business of business, Change, Critical Thinking, Economy, human spirit, Problem Solving, Progress, Quality, Systems Thinking on January 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Capitalism is so much held in reverence that for some it is like a religion. In fact people proudly proclaim I’m a capitalist! Seemingly it provides the guiding principle for behavior and thus the basis for how to structure life. In effect (putting their faith in capitalism) people have allowed the pursuit of (personal) wealth [...]
Rethinking a Fixed System
Posted in Change, Economy, Life, Problem Solving, Progress, Quality, tagged Business of business, Change, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Economy, human spirit, Leadership, Learning, Moral Values, partnership, Problem Solving, Progress, Quality, relationships, Systems Thinking on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Is the system broken? No, not at all! It is fixed just as desired. Our economic system has no (explicit) concern for ‘we’ in its design, it is all about ‘me’ getting what I can for ‘myself’—it is best labeled an egoistic economic system. The pursuit of material self-interest is the guiding principle for [...]
We Shape The Leaders We Get
Posted in Leadership, Life, Morality/Ethics, Progress, tagged Business of business, Change, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Development of Self, Economy, Ethical Principles, human spirit, Leadership, Moral Values, Progress, Statistical Thinking on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ever wonder why so many of the top executives of corporations are similar in character? Why is it that many accept a huge compensation package while at the same time communicate that it is necessary to cast off many people for the sake of competitiveness? Why is it that many CEO’s seem disconnected from the [...]
A Wake Up Call
Posted in Change, Life, Problem Solving, Progress, Relationships, tagged Change, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Economy, human spirit, Learning, partnership, Problem Solving, Progress, Systems Thinking on December 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The fact that Wall Street and other corporate executives are not only allowed but helped in gaining so much from the general public while they generally thumb their nose at the general public is not the problem, though it is symptomatic of a serious problem. The fact that more and more people continue to lose [...]
Informed Citizens Make Better Choices
Posted in Leadership, Morality/Ethics, tagged Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Ethical Principles, Leadership on December 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
With political advertising being less factual and accurate and more disparaging to opponents, what we have is tantamount to a boxing match absent of a referee and rules. The equivalent of a bar fight where everything is a weapon and head butting and kicks to the groin are accepted (and even expected). An informed citizenry [...]
Reflection #3 on Occupy Wall Street
Posted in Change, Economy, Life, Progress, tagged Change, Critical Thinking, Economy, human spirit, Progress, Systems Thinking on November 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If the Occupy movement is to succeed then it must lead us to understand that the economic system is not broken but that it is fundamentally flawed. What we are experiencing is nothing but an ill-conceived system taken to its inevitable conclusion: The privatization of society and the growing divide between the haves and the [...]
Rethink or Reload
Posted in Change, Economy, Life, Problem Solving, tagged Change, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Problem Solving, Progress, Systems Thinking on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In his OP-ED column in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman briefly summarizes two books, “The Great Disruption” by Paul Gilding and “The Power of Pull” by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown & Lang Davison that each speak to the many social protests (a.k.a. The Great Disruption) we are seeing throughout the world—Occupy Wall [...]
The Indignation of the Immune
Posted in Change, Economy, Life, Systems Thinking, tagged Change, Critical Thinking, Economy, human spirit, Moral Values, Progress, Systems Thinking on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent article by Paul Krugman spoke to the whining from the elite in Wall Street who believe that the good that they have done for society is not understood, claiming that “finance is the only thing America does well.” Not only is it telling of where we are as a society that [...]
Reformer Education
Posted in Education, Problem Solving, Quality, Systems Thinking, tagged Critical Thinking, Education, Learning, Problem Solving, Quality, Systems Thinking on October 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A recent Huffington Post article describes the agreement and disagreement between Arne Duncan (Secretary of Education) and Dennis Van Roekel (President of National Teachers Association) over the preparation and evaluation of teachers respectively. Sadly what is not being discussed—as can be inferred from the article—is the very process of learning.
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