While I was growing up with my grandfather (who was quite a management whiz) in India, he explained the concept of inflation when I was quite young. He told me that people were going out and buying necessities and then storing them to protect against rising prices. India…
As a recent victim of one of these unintended consequences, identity theft, I can tell you that trying to fix the problem FAR exceeds the efficiency that was initially created. By the way, my problems were not caused by a local hooligan but by a VERY sharp hacker (most likely tens of thousands of miles away) that helped himself to ALL my personal information.
A few weeks ago, the famous Washington Post White House author, Bob Woodward wrote an article entitled “Military thwarted president seeking choice in Afghanistan” which was all about the critical nature of decision making. What greater decision can there be then deciding the fate of tens of thousands of young U.S. men and women as they are sent into war-torn Afghanistan? The article chronicles the process that President Barrack Obama undertook in finally deciding to send 30,000 additional troops as opposed to the 40,000 (which came highly recommended by his military leaders) in December 2009.
Yesterday I flew coach on Delta Airlines from Atlanta to Chicago. . . It was almost an hour into the flight when I realized that I had yet to be offered something to drink. In trying to determine where the delay was coming from, I observed the flight…