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Management studies, Environmental United Fronts?
I have now read through about half of my textbooks for Financial Management and Management Perspectives and I have to conclude with something that I always suspected; management (at least the theory side) is easy or, more to the point, as a academic discipline it is rather lightweight (to this day, Peter Drucker is the only figure I can think of being worthy of note). Of course, I do come to this with decades of prior experience in the social sciences including a fair serve of economics, so perhaps it's just relatively easy given that background. Within the mindset however, I've also been reading Stephan Covey's popular self-help book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I am usually extremely cynical of the entire genre of such texts, but to give Cobey his due, he did a great deal of research on the characteristics of 'great leaders' and came to the conclusion is that it was their constant orientation towards universal moral principles that was their defining quality. A critic of "personality ethics" over "principle ethics", Covey quotes from the Marxist psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, radicals like Thomas Paine and Henry David Thoreau and existentialists like Victor Frankl. Attended a Labor Party branch meeting on Wednesday; speaker was from the Alternative Technology Association explaining the Federal governments subsidy and loans schemes for those who wish to put in solar hot water, insulation, energy efficient globes etc into their home (whether owned or rented). I consider such plans to good examples of interventionist, socialist economics; directed towards reducing the negative externalities and where the long-term savings far exceed the short-term costs. It strikes me that this has come through a reformist programme, despite the extra-parliamentary advocacy of environmentalist causes; and it makes me wonder how many of the far left have ever taken seriously Trotsky's theory of the united front - and what can be done about this. Of course, the key problem it is a united front of worker's organisations against the bourgeoisie; neglecting, yet again, the important possibility of the proletariat and bourgeoisie united against the landlord monarchs. |
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SF Culture
Culturally, SF feels quite different from most places that I know: * LOTS of people wear T-shirts containing funny text, seemingly original * unusual places: classical music café (in Berkeley), garlic restaurant, Pittsburgh-themed bar * getting hugged by people I just met (in some cases before they know my name); getting a back-cracking bear-hug from a total stranger today * zombies protesting at City Hall, and signing petitions in favor of gay marriage * DNA lounge: at a non-gay club, seeing ~50% of kisses were same-sex; mashup karaoke It feels to me like San Francisco is the creative capital of the world. People here like to experiment. |
mananath
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oh the places I can go
With three months to go I am now focusing more and more on off ice travel. Each day a new theory is thrown out by my head, some new destination. Every week this changes. My current plans, hatched a mere few hours ago, involve landing in Sydney and spending about a week in Australia as I take the India-Pacific train across the continent to Perth. From there I have become mesmorized by the cheap airfares of Tiger Air and am now looking into flying to the island of Borneo and spending a few weeks exploring that region (three countries for the price of one![Malaysia; Bruneii; Indonesia]). That done I will fly back to Perth, fly to Cairns and spend a few days diving the Great Barrier Reef. Then it will be either back to NZ or on to Hawaii. I love watching these plans develop. I love how I always fall into the proximity trap ("Well, since I am going to be here, it's only a littler further to there") when booking a trip. What I am starting to realize is that I don't really want to visit Australia. This is no disrespect to that country but it's looking like it's not the best place for a budget traveler. Plus it's a big, westernized country. Of course I am going to visit Australia, I have to -- it's my last continent (never thought I would hit Antarctica before Australia!) just probably not for as long as I was originally thinking. (this entry more a marker for me to look back on, but feel free to comment if you have been to any of these places) |
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dissertation progress of a sort
I've only got a few hundred new words to show for it, but I worked for much of the weekend. I didn't hide under my desk (for the most part), I read a bunch of articles, including several by people on my committee, which seemed prudent. I got the basic gist of several new books in my field that I should be able to feign having read. I thought more about my conclusion, which seems embarrassingly unsophisticated at the moment. I feel okay, which is a big improvement over yesterday's terror. I also feel like finishing this thing in the 3 weeks I have remaining is a terrifyingly herculean task that I have no choice but to be up to. More positively, I'm very impressed with the people on my committee. I'm lucky to work with thinkers of such caliber :) |
lucy_chronicles
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Government warning labels ;-) and more freedom fest comments
Yes, i'm ready to download and put em' all over various parts of Vegas. Heck, woulda' been good to do tonight after FF and the C4L group of Ron Paul folks but we've been too busy debating over British organic strawberry beer. ;-) It was another productive day from meeting other traders hearing them present at seminars to bothering the Schiff boys about their senate domination run to acquiring CD's of the tax haven seminars i've missed for $5 and finally seeing the last version of Aaron Russo's Freedom to Facism w/ the Obama Deception this eve -handed out for free by the Ron Paul folks. Good flirting as well but the majority who are interested in me I find too young. Some husband material present but i'm so ready to leave and if they're not already halfway out the door, ain' gonna work.. only one i didn't catch up w/ is Ms. A. we are long overdue a visit but got her my singapore noodle box going away present so i wont' have to send it to her in L.A. doherty and I visited for a bit. good trader advice too. i'm so conflicted now about leaving, citizenship, tax strangles and the whole nine yards.... not for public consumption. it will sort itself out in time w/ some meditation, prayer and signs beyond the rational/practical mundane world. |
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