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David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
organizations increasingly unable to achieve the purpose for which they were created, yet continuing to expand as they devour resources, demean the human spirit, and destroy the environment
Dee Hock • One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati…
The federal government has become the domain of hedgehogs, urgently needed people but profoundly insufficient. It is wisdom that is lacking, and there is no civil service code for the wise.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Democracies flourish when the nation is at peace and the harvest is bountiful—as, historically, was the environment of the professions in the post-World War II era. However, when war is declared or the crops fail, even the most ardent democracy selects a government that will direct the troops and tell factories what to produce. The style, if not th
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The democratic party apparatus is largely run by lawyers with JDs. The politicians, many of the staffers, most of the non profit executives, and many of the thinkiest think tankers have JDs. It is central to law education in the US that policy legitimacy is derived from the process that creates the policy, there is no focus on outcomes. Its ... See more
Big-Ass Truck Abundance
The primary job of business is to solve human problems, and the primary job of the state, then, is to create the conditions for large-scale cooperation to allow that process to happen. That involves things like promoting inclusion. You can’t have large-scale cooperation if you’re systematically excluding large groups of people. You have to have fai
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
