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Roundup: from decidedly dopy to dubiously decisive

Friday, September 18, 2009

Excellent stories have been stacking up, with no logical place or time to link to them. So, we’re going to do a roundup today as a venue for offering these truly worthwhile resources. . .

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Memorializing mendacity

Monday, August 31, 2009

We are approaching what is becoming acknowledged as the anniversary of the “beginning” of the current financial crisis that began in the US – according to the conventional wisdom, with the fall of Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2008 – and which has since swept around the world. And what a year this event has ushered in, and what changes it has wrought . . .

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Cultures in conflict

Friday, August 14, 2009

A good part of Adam Nicolson’s gripping retelling of the great Naval Battle of Trafalgar, “Seize the Fire,” turns out to be an exceptionally insightful depiction of the complex and powerful societal undertows that threw the combatant nations together on that awful day in October of 1805. . .

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Assumed identities

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

As the creature emerged from the chrysalis, the documentary narrator, himself a prominent scientist in the field, announced that the previously observed grub was now revealing its true identity – the adult form of a wasp. But is that true?

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Culturally coherent complementarity

Monday, August 10, 2009

As mentioned in response to an always thought-provoking comment to a recent post by Fred H. Schliegel, much of what has been written here over the past few months has had three purposes. One is to relate the topic at hand to its application at work; another is to consider the manner in which it is understood and manipulated by those of us who think about or attempt to act upon it; and the third is to offer a look at it with respect to its place in current events – especially political and social events particularly, but not exclusively, in the United States. This can be difficult to do, of course, in a basically brief format like this. . .

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Destructive diversity

Monday, August 3, 2009

Typically, diversity is not destructive at all. Even when it seems most unproductive, it might be working its greatest creative magic. But when it is a conscious construction, it can at the very least be problematic – in its very deliberateness introducing tensions into the dynamics of the workplace that have nothing to do with [...]

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Mr. Market

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Benjamin Graham, author of the venerable “Intelligent Investor,” used the phrase “Mr. Market” to make the point that the stock markets are often irrational, thus presenting profitable opportunities for investors. And today, it is also common for supposedly sophisticated and hard-nosed stock market observers to anthropomorphize the market. . .

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