If management can control things then management can be effective and efficient in realizing the desired results and sustaining the business. You will find very few who would disagree with this if-then thinking. This thinking is so common that it is rarely, if ever challenged—until now. Continue reading
Month: September 2012
What We Know That Ain’t So
The paradigm that emerged in the 17th century set humankind as the conqueror and manipulator of all things for tangible ends. Moreover knowing something meant that it is expressible and explainable in the language of mathematics (i.e. numbers, measurements), as everything that was anything must be quantifiable and quantified if it is to be understood. Accordingly everything in the universe became an object to be measured and modeled into exact laws of cause-and-effect. Continue reading
Labor Day 2012
Recent articles (Huffington Post, New York Times, Chicago SunTimes) have brought to light the fact that much of our economic malaise is not market failure but a failure of mindset. Continue reading
Gregory Gull 