Sublime

Thomas Malthus’ An Essay on the Principle of Population

Ask Yourself, “What’s My Job?”

Finally, I decided to get a second opinion. I called Richard Reese, the CEO of Iron Mountain, who already had operations in the UK. I had met Richard at a CEO group I attended and had asked him for his advice before. “Richard, what’s the most important thing I need to do in England?” I asked. Richard’s advice was quick and direct. “You need to intr

A politician or public official could accept a legal fee or an insurance premium from Triborough with assurance that no reporter or reformer would ever be able to discover that he had done so.

most organizational power tends to win.

Dimension Three Disciplining Our Limits

Men would have to make sacrifices for the sake of the system: acknowledging that some present employees would not score high enough on his tests for the jobs they held, he had a simple solution—such employees would have to accept demotions and pay cuts. Unnecessary employees, he said, would have to be “eliminated.”

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The consultant is always in the position of reducing large amounts of data to a manageable number of issues.