Comments on: MBA by practice, but physicist at heart

By: factoring

factoring — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:11:24 +0000

great blog !

By: HB

HB — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:30:31 +0000

Hi, very interesting Blog. nicely done!

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By: Affacturage

Affacturage — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:11:12 +0000

The argument that the US suffered violent economic cycles in the laissez faire markets of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from which we have been spared by the wise actions of the Fed and counter cyclical federal spending is demolished in two ways. First, these periods were characterized by frequent overzealous lending of fiat money, sometimes by private banks, sometimes by banks set up by the government, and it doesn’t matter who creates the bogus money. Second, much of the economic history of the period is stated in terms of nominal dollars, and in some periods, when the money was actually stable while production increased, nominal prices fell, as they must

By: ARC

ARC — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:58:19 +0000

Yikes, that one hasn’t made it to MS yet, thank god.

Another one I hate, being a biochemist is “it’s in our DNA”, when a company talks about something they do, like security, or innovation or whatever.

How freakin’ annoying. A company doesn’t have DNA. Shut up already.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:52:45 +0000

Hey, have you seen this news article?
New details about Michael Jackson’s Death Emerge
I was wondering if you were going to blog about this…

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:10:18 +0000

I totally agree…. and I’m not even an MBA or business student. I read enough of the literature, news and other articles to have heard phrases such as these. It’s part of the culture that I don’t like. It’s not a good thing for too much of everyday life to get folded into the operating expenses folder or marketing management soup and subsumed under “organizational psychology” (ok, that one is a legitimate discipline, but you know what I mean). The rise in the perceived necessity for personal branding online, I think, is also a symptom of the corporatization of Western (U.S.?) culture. I was thinking about this today while hearing Seth Godin talk. What would his services be if “Marketing” wasn’t so ubiquitous and necessary? Another sad thing about business culture is the passing off of half-truths and half-knowledge as expertise and knowledge. I know enough people who are sent in to give seminars and talks and don’t know half of what they’re supposed to be talking about, but they’re just supposed to wing it. Great leadership there!

By: Distance Learning Blogg

Distance Learning Blogg — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:32:49 +0000

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By: mapgirl

mapgirl — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:06:06 +0000

Frightening how ppl will appropriate words and use them incorrectly. Bad optics always means bad lenses, i.e. poorly made glasses or mirrors.

People think I’m being sarcastic when I print out Buzzword Bingo for them, but sadly I just want them to use English properly with clarity and precision.