Posts Tagged ‘disorder’

The opinion

Magazine -> #7 Chaos

There’s a lot of talk going around about order and disorder, and there’s a common opinion that the two concepts are diametrically opposed to each other. But nature is not at all that “orderly”. The laws of thermodynamics clearly tell us that disorder is growing everywhere in the universe. And if we look at any business enterprise, we can...

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Enlightened by error

Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The Error

The great Russian woman poet, Marina Cvetaeva, once wrote: “I’ve trained my soul to linger outside the window… I simply wouldn’t allow it into the house, the same way as one wouldn’t let in a stray dog or an exotic bird”. That’s one, and not so infrequent, a way of keeping at bay those silly and seemingly unaccountable tricks played ...

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Thank goodness for complexity!

Magazine -> #7 Chaos

Francesco Di Lauro talks with  Ernesto Illy Order is good, disorder bad. But is that really how things stand? Ernesto Illy, president of illycaffè, a firm universally acknowledged has having sired 4 of the 7 most important inventions in the sector over the last 100 years, reconsiders the issue and puts forth an alternative point of view on t...

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PPP, the recipe for happyness

Magazine -> #7 Chaos

There’s a lot of talk nowadays about the sustainability of corporate enterprise. Corporations operate in a natural context. They bring about changes in the environment and upset the natural balance, while trying to impose their own. What kind of governance can there be for this sort of activity? Corporations live off nature. It’s essential tha...

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