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In Praise of Ecological Rationality: The Return of Practical Wisdom to Management

Posted on June 26, 2012 by David

This is the title of the article of mine published last week by the European Financial Review. It begins like this: Just over fifty years ago in America a concerted attempt was made to professionalize the field of management and … Continue reading →

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Obama and Romney: Prisoners of the System?

Posted on June 19, 2012 by David

I spent Thursday and Friday of last week at a conference in Las Vegas where I was speaking. The meeting was put on by the Applied Finance Group (AFG), a financial consulting company who create sophisticated corporate valuation models for … Continue reading →

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Seeing The World With New Eyes

Posted on June 12, 2012 by David

A few weeks ago I put on a seminar in New York City, kindly hosted by Kaihan Krippendorf. Kaihan is a management strategist, speaker and author who helps organizations “outthink” their competition. He is also an expert blogger for Fast … Continue reading →

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Catch 22: The Anatomy of a Social Trap

Posted on June 5, 2012 by David

Joseph Heller’s best-selling, satirical novel, Catch-22, gets it name from the self-contradicting circular logic that the book’s protagonist, Captain John Youssarian encounters while on active service as a B-25 bombardier during World War II. This was the logic that prevented … Continue reading →

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