How Things Work
After spending 20 years learning how things worked on the upper floors of government (military) bureaucracy and Fortune 500 corporate management I spent another 20 years at the other end of the economic and...
Part II, How the Organization Man Went Rogue
Part II
The Gordon Gekko vision (1987) more or less defined the next iteration of Organization Man, which I learned the hard way after returning to the US, trying to help link up American entrepreneurs...
Has the Wuhan Flu Given the World a Competition Between Statism and Democratic Solutions?
Long before Communism, the Chinese had been considered "inscrutable". Popular fiction of the late 19th-early 20th Century had portrayed them as possessing the most complex and cunning criminal minds, both for crime, Fu Manchu,...
The American Political Class, God help me….
God help me...
...but every time I see a GOP member of the political class, with a few exceptions (Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Jim Jordan...just a handful) refuse to speak or take a position on...
A 30-Day Track Ahead of the Fear Mongers
There's a gentleman on Twitter named Mike Anderson @mikeandersonsr, who's a 60-something executive manager. He's begun posting on Twitter every morning, early, around 6, a running total of reported US coronavirus cases, at their...
“One of These Day I’m Gonna Run This Construction Company!”
For those of you old enough, there was a beatnik comedian from the 60s named Brother Dave Gardner. He told a story about going to a construction site where he saw a fellow standing over by the gravel pile with his foot on his...