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Sep 1, 2002

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A Discussion of “Beyond Unions?”

In the previous issue of Comment, Ray Pennings argued thatIf [unions] intransigently resist the change and try to hold onto the old order, the system will implode. They will be replaced by the emerging worker representative organizations. If, on the other hand, they...

Sep 1, 2002

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Leadership and the Problem of Identity

. . . there is surely no need to get so wrought up about trifles like this. Yourself you have never been at all; Then what does it matter, your dying right out?Henrik Ibsen's dramatic poem, Peer Gynt , focuses largely on the concept of self and identity. The main...

Sep 1, 2002

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Arts and Letters Daily is Dead

The much loved Arts & Letters Daily is dead and gone. Tran Huu Dung and Denis Dutton, the editors, are not giving up, though. They have a new site, Philosophy & Literature, doing pretty much the same job.If I were a cat, Arts & Letters Daily would have...

Sep 1, 2002

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On Craft

With Comment, we try and connect three things in every issue (although not necessarily all three at the same time in every single piece we publish): (1) the Christian worldview, (2) everyday-work-as-cultural-engagement, and (3) economic life.We are convinced that work...

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...