Management

There are limits in both music and medicine. Go beyond those limits, and disaster is inevitable.

"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

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.