Month: January 2016

  • Ulysses S. Grant on swearing

    Ulysses S. Grant on swearing

    I am not aware of ever having used a profane expletive in my life; but I would have the charity to excuse those who may have done so, if they were in charge of a train of Mexican pack mules at the time.

  • How do you rebuild America? Stop treating government like a start up.

    How do you rebuild America? Stop treating government like a start up.

    It’s news to no one that America’s middle class has been devastated by computers and globalization. With income inequality on everyone’s mind, it’s now the billion-dollar question policy makers face over the next twenty years. The standard solution follows something like this: The entire economy seems to be stagnant, except for Silicon Valley. Government needs to copy […]

  • At what cost was China’s development miracle?

    At what cost was China’s development miracle?

    In Age of Ambition, Evan Osnos delivers the impossible. He answers the question, “At what cost was China’s development miracle?”

  • Change Management is the tactical implementation of strategy

    Change Management is the tactical implementation of strategy

    Change Management is a vague concept. It has been around for about fifty years, but there it lacks an 100 percent agreed upon definition. A cynic would say it’s almost like people built an entire industry without fully understanding what it is they were claiming to do.  John Kotter, who popularized the term, originally considered it an 8-step linear process. PROSCI, the largest […]