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The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.

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In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

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What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

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Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

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In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.

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If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

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Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

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For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

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On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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