Over my many years as a business practitioner and amateur researcher/reader, I have been trying to "figure out" business, in all of its fascinating complexity. By being able to break it down into it's component pieces I hope to be able to better ... [Continue Reading]
Thoughts on time management
I'm just reading Ricardo Semler's fascinating book from 1993 -- it's his story of building and running the large Brazilian conglomerate Semco. The book is "Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace, and only 72 pages into ... [Continue Reading]
“Corporate Social Responsibility” is a fundamentally flawed concept
The vast majority of business practitioners that I have met and worked with throughout my career are caring, honest people who one would generally regard as striving to be morally and ethically responsible. They don’t particularly want to run ... [Continue Reading]
Anti or pro business…?
I've just come from a very productive meeting with a gentleman who has very a impressive business and government policy pedigree; the intent of the meeting was to get some feedback from him on the Business Detox Project and some insights on how I ... [Continue Reading]
How to detoxify your business
If you buy into the concept that business is -- by design and structure -- an inherently "toxic machine", then one question that has to be asked is.... How would one go about truly detoxifying their business? While a fundamental belief of this ... [Continue Reading]
Detoxing — some straightforward solutions
In earlier posts, I've laid out in some detail the "problems" that businesses generate in our society, which are both intended and unintended consequences of the construction of our market economy. The solutions to these challenges are ... [Continue Reading]
At the heart of business — 3 ironies
Being fascinated by business I have spent some time studying the specific toxic natures of the machine. And as any good engineer is taught to proceed, I have deconstructed the machine to try to better understand how and why it operates the way ... [Continue Reading]
What CCI means to me…
People will tell you that for a business to be meaningful, it must connect up with something that is important to the customer... and so of course in promoting the business in public, we tend to lead with a customer-centric statement -- more often ... [Continue Reading]
