by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Class. 11. Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending. via by Lemony Snicket – OccupyWriters.com.
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading, Science
Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better? Elite athletes use a whole raft of coaches to help them peform more effectively. So do elite musicians. Why shouldn’t elites in other sectors such as medicine, business and government administration?...
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Scott Adams Blog: Creativity Spurt. As the man himself would say, don’t take advice from cartoonists. However, it is an interesting thought that society is well placed to take part in some substantial new thinking about the way the state works now we know it is...
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world. The article is a little less frothy than the headline, and makes the valid point that the concentration of power per se is not an issue, but that network theory suggests that such a network is not resilient...
by Tom | Oct 19, 2011 | Business, Reading
AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW? – Global Guerrillas has this terribly depressing chart showing how we have managed to destroy the connection between productivity and wages. We have to get this back on track, I think. Separately, if we are looking for one of the...
by Tom | Oct 12, 2011 | Business, Reading, View
Dilbert comic strip for 10/12/2011. So true, so very true.
