I’ve been thinking about the pernicious effects of our overachievement society again, this time by way of Philip Delves Broughton (via NYTimes Opinionator), in a post called The McNamara Syndrome. The following is actually from the author’s book, Ahead of the Curve: One of the most famous alumni of Harvard’s MBA program is Robert McNamara, [...]
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Richard Florida asks, “How do we move beyond the bailout economy to one that is creative, productive, and prosperous?” Let’s start from the end of my recent post about Keynes, an afterthought at the time: … my feeling right now is that the best solution would be a kind of “green bubble” that uses government funds to challenge researchers and entrepreneurs, [...]
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I tried tackling this on the weekend, spent all day Sunday and ended up with a 2000 word manure pile of pretentiousness. I even disgusted myself — not that what I was saying was at all wrong, but in that form it was just way too obvious that I think very highly of myself: making grand pronouncements [...]
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Burying the Best and the Brightest
by OpenConceptual on 07-09-2009
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I’ve been thinking about the pernicious effects of our overachievement society again, this time by way of Philip Delves Broughton (via NYTimes Opinionator), in a post called The McNamara Syndrome. The following is actually from the author’s book, Ahead of the Curve: One of the most famous alumni of Harvard’s MBA program is Robert McNamara, [...]
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