Submitted by PeterElias on Fri, 08/31/2012 - 06:00
"In an ideal world, your job as a manager would include setting goals and acquiring the resources to achieve them. But you don't live in an ideal world, largely because there are people like you in it."
- From Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook by Scott Adams
Submitted by PeterElias on Sat, 08/11/2012 - 06:00
Tim Jackson has written a fascinating piece about the economic limits of productivity. Aside from the economic considerations, I increasingly believe that the philosophy underlying medical care is incompatible with the concept of productivity.