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I believe that the reason Oliver Williamson, whose work builds on the seminal work of Ronald Coase on transaction costs and Elinor Ostrom, who worries about the private coordination of the sharing of common resources, is a wonderful recognition that in our increasingly networked.

I think the most underrated thinker of the 20th century may be Frederick Taylor.  Ironically, Taylor’s influence  on people’s day to day existence is  wider than the existentialism of Sarte.  Taylor’s basic notion of bringing science to bear in the workplace is the basis.

April 24th’s New York Times featured a front page (below the fold) picture (and story) of hotels.nl’s advertising on the side of sheep, bedecked with advertising blankets rented to hotels.nl for the price of one euro, per day, per sheep. It is heralded by.

My friend Dan Ariely, a Professor at MIT’s Media Lab and Sloan School , and his colleague James Heyman wrote a wonderful little paper called Effort for Payment: A tale of two markets.  In this short piece they brilliantly show people operate with at.

Many years ago Peter Drucker pointed out, with the clarity that few management writers achieve, that corporations exist to create customers and serve them.  Marketing is the art of creating customers.  (It is true that assessing great management writers is like judging a strength.

A few weeks ago  I was presenting an approach to management that was at its core a “scientific” approach; not in the narrow Frederick Taylor sense of time and motion studies, but in the more knowledge-worker-friendly notions taking information about the business, and the.

Well, I have to admit it.  I was wrong, so wrong.  As the father of five, and someone married to the same Eileen Marie Harvey for 25 and 1/2 years, you would think I would be used to being wrong.  And yes, I don’t get.