Another timely quotation from the powerpoint notes of a professor:
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy – Franz Kafka
Enough said…… Read more »
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The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal offers subscribers a break from the frenetic pace of the world financial markets, with the latest reports of turbulence or destruction or fraud or other minor acts of malfeasance. Instead of a hurried read over the one cup of java before work, the weekend edition invites a [...] Read more »
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Once, way back when I was a working man, I had a conversation with my boss about an issue with the operation I was managing. I can’t remember whether it was about our receiving operation, i.e. getting stock into inventory so that our call centers could sell the stuff, or whether it was about our [...] Read more »
A copy of Seth Godin’s new book , The Dip, fell into my hands a few days ago. Like a lot of people, I think Seth is a very smart guy. His blog is a source of wonderful insights and great ideas.
The Dip is about knowing when to quit something, and knowing when to push [...] Read more »
Like a lot of kids around the southeast, I grew up watching Dean Smith’s Tarheels play basketball. Phil Ford, Dennis Wuycik, Bobby Jones, these were the names we knew during our formative years. For us, the Tarheels represented the metaphor for how people should be. Team first, unselfish, play within the system, the whole is [...] Read more »
