Blog | Recent Posts
-
Burn Down The Business Schools
Should we burn down the business schools? Chris Marquis had a New York Times opinion piece that created a lot of buzz. Here are some of my thoughts. They are too late to impact the discussion, but I still think that they are important. Burn Down The Business Schools The provocative header “it’s time to…
-
Degrowth By Any Other Name
I must confess to finding discussions around degrowth fascinating. I’m not a fan of degrowth. It seems a bit of a slippery term with defenders saying it isn’t about shrinking the economy despite “degrowth” sounding like it means that. Still, it is always interesting to see what others are saying. A group of scholars led…
-
The Academic Grass Is Always Greener
After reading Its On You by Nick Chater and George Loewenstein I ended up a bit sad for them. It reads like men who feel they have wasted their lives and are frantically trying to make up for it. They wish they weren’t behavioral economists/psychologists. I might tell them to relax a bit, the academic…
-
Is Systemic Versus Individual A False Dichotomy?
Nick Chater and George Loewenstein’s book, It’s On You, looks at how attempts to drive attention to the actions of individuals diverts attention from the need to change systems. Strangely, although I suspect I agree with the authors on a lot of what they say about the need to change systems, I was disappointed after…
-
Teaching Is Marketing
I was reading a book on teaching the other day and it occurred to me that teaching is marketing. Many of the same things that make for a great teacher are also what make for a great marketer. Teaching Matters (Or At Least It Should Do) A peculiarity of being a professor at a research…
-
The Learning Organization And Sustainability
The Fifth Discipline is a book that focuses on the importance of organizational learning. Coming from a systems perspective, it takes the view that we are so much more collectively than individually. Solving problems requires getting beyond simplistic explanations, e.g., Fred is incompetent, to more realistic and rounded views, e.g., Fred might be incompetent but…
-
How To Stop Tech Platforms Getting Worse?
Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification takes a very critical view of tech platforms. He consciously uses mildly offensive terminology while making points about how the tech that we experience has followed a specific pattern. Sadly it is a negative pattern; the tech platforms have us trapped and give a progressively worse offering. A few years ago I…
-
Why Are We Doing This?
Some of the big questions in the world are “why are we here” and “why are we doing this”? One of the professors from my MBA has a book that mirrors his course getting students to think through the big questions of life and how they relate to stakeholder business. Thinking About The Ultimate Questions…
