Ten Indicators that our Way of Life is Doomed
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 Posted in Rants | No Comments »If you are following the news closely, you are well aware that life as we have known it, is at at an end. What we are witnessing is the breakdown of the "The Crap Cycle". 1. The middle-class is almost ...
Rebooting our Economy
Friday, December 26th, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »In his column, "Time to Reboot America ", Thomas Friedman continues to demonstrate that he just doesn't get it. He writes, "I'd like to see fewer government dollars shoveled out and more creative tax incentives to stimulate the private sector to ...
Eternal Enterprise
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »An enterprise can be likened to a ship making her way in perilous waters. Everyone on the ship has a job to do. Every life depends on the efforts of the crew as a whole. All must work in unison. ...
Where’s the Meat?
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »W. E. Deming, earned his wings in exciting times. One on hand he had Albert Einstein, the grand theorist and mathematical imagineer, who as a young man ventured a sweeping view of the universe that defied our sensory experience and common ...
Rotten Timbers
Saturday, December 20th, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »Last night, Paul Krugman, economist, columnist, and Nobel Prize winner, spoke at the National Press Club. His little-boy demeanor had a certain charm. As he recited a litany of woes, his eyes remained downcast, signaling to my mind a bad ...
It’s Time for a Hybrid Economy
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Posted in Rants | 2 Comments »America used to be a nation of practical people. The challenges of the untamed New World demanded practical solutions. The US Constitution itself, with its tripartite balancing act, was a practical approach to governing. But with prosperity and middle age, ...
A Letter to George Soros
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »The following link is to an excellent article by George Soros, one of the great marketists of our time. Read his article and then my letter of reply to George. The Crisis & What to Do About It, By George Soros ...
Greenspan’s Tooth Fairy
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »Alan Greenspan, the financial guru who engineered our current economic disaster, admits that he was not guided by theory. Instead, he explains that he was guided by the tooth fairy of a free marketist ideology. As with people who are ...
Institute Leadership
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »The value of a philosophy--a grand theory--is measured in terms of it's predictive power and coherence in explaining how things work. Deming's philosophy was expressed as a running commentary on the conduct of human enterprise and encompassed the nature of ...
Time to Act
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »We are in the midst of a perfect storm that Deming presaged. This is the CRISIS he foresaw when he titled his book, "Out of the Crisis" - Two ongoing war's of of adventure and still counting - Unprecedented national deficits - ...
