Tag: innovation
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Thoughts on the “The Limits to Panic”
Forty-one years after the publication of the infamous Limits to Growth, Bjorn Lomborg offers this excellent piece, The Limits to Panic: … But the report's fundamental legacy remains: we have inherited a tendency to obsess over misguided remedies for largely trivial problems, while often ignoring big problems and sensible remedies. In the early 1970's, the…
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Why Some Companies Seem To Last Forever
Business Insider: Why Some Companies Seem To Last Forever … What explains this longevity? Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Charles O’Reilly calls it "organizational ambidexterity": the ability of a company to manage its current business while simultaneously preparing for changing conditions. "You often see successful organizations failing, and it's not obvious why they should fail," O’Reilly says. The…
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Saturday Links
1. I don't know much about Common Good RVA, but I like their vision. Christianity Today published a piece featuring them, Why the Rest of Your Week Matters to God "In general, the church has done a fine job equipping Christians for the "private" areas of their lives: prayer, morality, family life, and so on.…
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Are There Too Many People on the Planet?
Conservation Magazine: Are There Too Many People on the Planet? … Here’s what I bet goes on when this question is posed—and I want to say up front that I think this way myself. I do not like long lines and traffic jams. I do not like that I have to drive 60 minutes to…
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Rural Groceries Find New Ways to Stay Alive
US News and World Report: Rural Groceries Find New Ways to Stay Alive In some parts of America, a dying grocery store can threaten a town's well-being … The problem extends into neighboring states of America's bread basket. Of 215 Kansas grocery stores in towns with 2,500 residents or less, 82 have closed in the…
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Flyover Country? Not This Kansas City
Huffington Post: Flyover Country? Not This Kansas City "… The Kansas City Metropolitan area is becoming the envy of individuals on the East and West coasts who have long since considered it merely flyover country. The City of Fountains has been praised as a great place to live, work and visit for many years, but…
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The last Kodak moment?
The Economist: The last Kodak moment? Kodak is at death’s door; Fujifilm, its old rival, is thriving. Why? … Both firms saw their traditional business rendered obsolete. But whereas Kodak has so far failed to adapt adequately, Fujifilm has transformed itself into a solidly profitable business, with a market capitalisation, even after a rough year,…