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Sep 1, 2002

Wilhelm Roepke and the Original “Third Way”

Austrian economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises are often credited as the spiritual godfathers of the Reagan-Thatcher revolution and the subsequent revival of free market economics. Their German-Swiss contemporary, Wilhelm Roepke, is far less known today. Yet...

Jun 1, 2002

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Five Half-Truths

Henry Mintzberg—McGill business professor, management thinking maverick, and author most recently of Why I Hate Flying (Texere, 2001)—and two collaborators, Robert Simons and Kunal Basu, recently published a Memo to CEOs detailing "Five half-truths of business": We're...

Jun 1, 2002

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Signifying Trust

A New Brand World: 8 Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Century by Scott Bedbury with Stephen Fenichell (Toronto: Viking Press, 2002, 288 pp, $35.99)While A New Brand World is written in an anecdotal style and wrapped around Bedbury's resume, it...

Jun 1, 2002

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How to Get People to Work in Agriculture

The following is an edited excerpt from Agricultural Sector Human Resource Recruitment Initiatives, a report of a study conducted by the Work Research Foundation for the Ontario Agricultural Human Resources Commission (OAHRC) submitted earlier this year.Ask young...

Mar 1, 2002

Editorial: Limits

In a recent issue of the Harvard Business Review, leadership thinker Warren Bennis writes:Joseph Campbell once said, "In medieval times, as you approached the city, your eye was taken by the cathedral. Today, it's the towers of commerce. It's business, business,...

Mar 1, 2002

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Small Pieces Loosely Joined

While the popping of the big tech investment bubble jaded many people on the possibilities of the Internet, it certainly had no such effect on David Weinberger. According to Weinberger, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto (Perseus, 2001), "the Web is, if anything,...

Mar 1, 2002

The Social Architecture of Business

September 11 and the preceding popping of the bubble economy of hi-flyin', hi-financed, hi-tech stocks without doubt changed the economic landscape in North America.But these changes are more climactic than tectonic: financial global warming may have been replaced by...