Harsh winter and the law of unintended consequences

Bureaucracies and icicles lead to victims by Isaac Getz During this December 2010, the municipality of Saint Petersburg has been facing two challenges— both of natural causes. The first has been the nature of the local winter. When the temperature rises up towards 0°C...

Edge magazine believes Freedom Inc is a smart way to work

Get smart by Robert Munro JANUARY, 2011 In today’s challenging marketplace, companies must compete effectively while battling with diminished resources and recruitment freezes. Motivating the existing workforce has become a priority, and many organisations are...
Robert Frost on Growth & the Environment for it

Robert Frost on Growth & the Environment for it

American poet on human growth From Robert Frost’s 1919 “Address to the Amherst Alumni Council”:  You remember when teachers began to talk against rote memory. The day of reason came in and they began to say, “Let us have a college where people think...

A Physicist Solves the Fleeting Life of Businesses

A Physicist Solves the City by Johan Lehrer DECEMBER 17, 2010 Earlier, we wrote that 99 percent of large US firms do not survive for 40 years without having been either bankrupt or acquired as shown by business scholars Stubbart and Knight. We also pointed to the...

Goodwill, intangible assets, and where they come from

Goodwill, intangible assets, and the right culture When a company is acquired, most often the amount the buyer pays for it is far superior to the value of its tangible—physical and financial—assets. Goodwill is, technically, an intangible asset, one coming into play...