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#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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Feb 02, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: business, corporate, disorder, economic, efficiency, enterprise, gain, laws, methods, nature, opinion, organisation, performance, standards, universe | Leave A Comment »
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#15 Techno-ecology
There are certain criteria involved in buying a car nowadays; some of these we could define as “mathematical”, such as price or performance, easily comparable between makes and models. There are also more subjective factors, that depend on our personal tastes, such as the shape, or the combination of lines and colours that define a car’s styl...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bavarian, bmw, car, carbon dioxide, cars, clean, colours, company, customers, dingolfing, dow jones, efficiency, environmental, flexibility, german | Leave A Comment »
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#13 Conscious project
Business and ethics: we discuss the issue with Sebastiano Maffettone, author of Etica Pubblica (Public Ethics) (Il Saggiatore, 2001), chief editor of the journal Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche (Philosophy and Public Issues), lecturer of Political Philosophy and Social Ethics [ http://www.luiss.it ] and visiting professor at Harvard [ http://www.ha...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: behaviour, business, company, consumers, consumption, corporation, dogood gimmickery, eco system, efficiency, enterprise, ethic, ethics, fair trade, human beings, idea | Leave A Comment »
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#22 Kaizen
Starting from its core principle, that is the progressive reduction of waste in the production process considered as “anactivity" that adds costs without adding value”, kaizen’s philosophy may be equated with the principle of simplicity and simplification, two distinct modes of the same outlook.
Can such a concept, originally developed in an...
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Nov 25, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: anactivity, basic, biscuit, business, costs, creative, efficiency, emotional, imagination, increase, john maeda, make love, making money, mba, nature | Leave A Comment »
