Archive for July 2006



I Tivoed Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: Addicted to Oil which appeared on Discovery Times in June 2006. Finally got a chance to watch it this evening, and was floored by this statement1 by Shaunna Sowell:

“America can keep good manufacturing jobs, but we cannot do it the same way we’ve been doing it. We have to [...]

  • Fortune Doesn’t Know Jack?

    Tom Peters says Fortune and Jack Welch are both wrong:

    “The real Welch magic, as I see it, can be summarized in just two words: EXECUTION MANIA. GE folks make promises—and keep them. This turns out to be Novel Idea No.1 in virtually all Big Cos, and most not-so-big-companies. Welch and GE live by: Execute. Execute. Execute.”

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More opportunities there for regret.My problem with most of these projects still exists and wasn’t really addressed by the film: despite the laudable environmental purpose, the projects are not economic and don’t pay for themselves…. It’s feel-good marketing that seems totally ineffective in addressing the problems so effectively demonstrated by Inconvenient Truth.In the film, Gore shows there are only two industrialized countries that have have not ratified the Kyoto Accord: the United States and Australia.





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