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The downside of posting as often as I do

March 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars , Social software

…is that people who update their aggregator subscriptions only once every three or four days (which is likely) get incoherent posts from me (which is less than desirable from my perspective). Apparently I can make this problem better or worse by changing settings my end. Thanks to Charlie Wood for setting me right on this. [...]

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Four Pillars: Foundation Trilogy versus edgeperspectives pushpull

March 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars

When I alerted people to my plans for a Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation approach to underpin the Four Pillars, I got a ping back from John Hagel reminding me about the work that he had done with JSB in this respect, following on from The Only Sustainable Edge. I was privileged to [...]

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Deja Vu: Ten books I’ve re-read this past year

March 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Books

And I feel
like I’ve been here before
Feel
like I’ve been here before
And you know it makes me wonder
What’s going on
David Crosby, Deja Vu: Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Dallas Taylor and Greg Reeves
[BTW I have not seen a “neutrality disputed” tag on a topic like this before in Wikipedia. Looks like I will have to do [...]

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Corporate lobbying and opportunity costs

March 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Management

Michael Massing makes an interesting point in the FT today, you can find an excerpt of the article here.
My takeaway from his comments is as follows:

1. US corporates spend an awful lot of money lobbying government on a variety of issues
2. The sectors that do the lobbying (eg automobiles, utilities, entertainment) spend this awful lot [...]

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