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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Summarizing the fallacy of individual leadership

We’ve covered a lot of ground over the past several years in these pages. We’ve talked about everything from free-market capitalism to history – even physics. But at bottom, it all has been about management and leadership; in particular, how the former is a proper and honorable individual undertaking in an organization, and how the latter is, not to put to fine a point on it, neither. . .

Playing the odds

As a rule, we should expect talent to be evenly distributed throughout the world. All other things being equal, we should find individuals with exceptional ability at some particular rate per capita within all nations, communities, even organizations. So, large groupings should have more talent than smaller ones. If all groupings of all sizes have only one boss, then we should expect to see the larger ones benefiting from competition among a greater amount of talent to fill that top position. Is that what you see?

Book Review: Innovation: Need of the Hour

Sramana Mitra is a successful businesswoman who has developed specific and focused ideas on how entrepreneurs can improve their chances, how this can help the economy, and how the economy itself might better be structured to encourage this worthwhile outcome. She promotes this thinking through her consulting, and then spins her carefully organized observations into a series of wonderful books on the theme. We have looked at two of these . . .

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