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Category Archives: Management

Hardly worth the bother

We’ve been looking at how various modern professionals look at the questions of how the universe works, what our place is in it, and which elements – physical reality or psychic will – drive which. But this is an ancient question. And the earliest of those who asked it . . .

Clutch decisions

Strictly speaking, a psychiatrist is essentially a physician who specializes in mental disease. . .

Book Review: Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market

Sramana Mitra has plotted out a series of books on various aspects of entrepreneurial activity with regard to its effects on management and on the general economy. They all are formed around interviews with entrepreneurs whose experiences illustrate the main theme of each volume. The first . . .

Roundup: Caught up

Continuing from Friday’s post, today we are going to finish up reviewing some of the blog and press activity of the past few weeks which touches on themes we expect to address here soon. Again, virtually all of this material is on my daily reading list, and I mention that here because I think it would make an immediately effective addition to the daily scan of any serious manager or student of management; I hope you will be persuaded and add some of this to yours. . .

Roundup: Catching up

A lot of interesting stuff has been going on over the past few weeks. A good bit of it touches on themes we’ll likely be visiting, here, soon, so let’s take a closer look at some of it . . .

Manage thyself

When we consider the question of how to manage others, we typically picture those others as more or less blank slates upon which we can write our magic stories. Or, at least, we imagine them to be fellow travelers, but with no baggage – nothing to disturb the expression or question the validity of the model of management we are being taught to apply with (or on) them. . .

Just management

Behind many of the current political disputes in the US lately is the question of justice. It is remarkable – isn’t it? – how stridently partisans can depict versions of it that may be mutually comprehensible, but that are decidedly not mutually reconcilable. For our purposes, let’s look at it this way . . .

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