THE 20 WARNING SIGNS YOU ARE IN DANGER OF BECOMING A BUREAUCRAT

10. You are too busy to experiment.
14. You avoid making decisions because it might get you noticed.
16. You find yourself looking forward to meetings.

Recognizing warning signs that you're becoming a bureaucrat

Sun's chairman and chief executive thinks slogans are a substitute for strategy

Still changing the subject | Economist

Given the dismal condition of the dismal science, intellectual trespassing is a risk worth taking.

Foreign Policy: Economist Class

"One's own employees ought to be one's own best customers," Mr. Ford said. "Paying high wages," he concluded, "is behind the prosperity of this country."

This turned into a pillar of 20th-century economic wisdom. It's time to ask, though, whether Mr. Ford's big idea is as ill suited to this century as his car company seems to be.

The Economics of Henry Ford May Be Passe

1. Be passionate - About how your work improves people's lives
2. Be clear - About precisely how you provide that value
3. Stay focused - On what customers truly care about
4. Communicate unceasingly - Your passion, vision and strategy
5. Stay tuned in - To the rapid and endless changes in today's marketplace
6. Be kind - If you want your people to be kind
7. Stop lying - To your people, shareholders, customers and, especially, yourself
8. Trust others - Which is not the same as telling them what to do (see #7 above)
9. Give back - To customers, employees, the needy, and the environment
10. Take risks - Brand is a verb, not a noun

Relieving Stress

Dear Barron's:

While I agree that there are many reasons to be bearish on Google, I don't believe the ones you cite are to be taken seriously.

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Best regards,
Andrew Odlyzko

Andrew Odlyzko's Letter to Barron's

During the past fifteen years, changes in the technologies used to make and store audio and video recordings, combined with the communication revolution associated with the Internet, have generated an extraordinary array of new ways in which music and movies can be produced and distributed. Both the creators and the consumers of entertainment products stand to benefit enormously from the new systems. If the available technologies were exploited fully, the costs of audio and video recordings would drop sharply, the incomes of artists would rise, many more artists could reach global audiences, the variety of music and films popularly available would increase sharply, and listeners and viewers would be able to participate much more easily in the shaping of their cultural environments.

Sadly, we have failed thus far to avail ourselves of these opportunities. Instead, much energy has been devoted to interpreting or changing legal rules in hopes of defending older business models against the threats posed by the new technologies. These efforts to plug the multiplying holes in the legal dikes are failing and the entertainment industry has fallen into crisis.

This provocative book chronicles how we got into this mess and presents three alternative proposals--each involving a combination of legal reforms and new business models--for how we could get out of it.

You can read more.

Chapter 6 outlines the best of the possible solutions to the crisis: an administrative compensation system that would provide an alternative to the increasingly creaky copyright regime. In brief, here’s how such a system would work:

Endorsements from Lessing, Vaidhyanathan, Benkler, and many publications.

Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment

A recent Friedman piece.

The more I cover foreign affairs, the more I wish I had studied education in college, because the more I travel, the more I find that the most heated debates in many countries are around education.

Worried about India’s and China’s booms? So are they.

I'm going to suggest a natural language interpretation of what we can learn from the Internet routing table and from the archives of the routing table.

You don't see, until very recently, much that actually has been trying to associate with these logical layer endings with geopolitical endings until very recently.

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It seems to me, based on this data, that proliferation of Autonomous Systems is a useful measure or benchmark of one element of efficiency which contributes to national network economy, which is to say domestic wholesale capacity market, the course fibre part.

And the growth of Internet production without corresponding proliferation, diversification, of AS numbers may be, in effect, indicative of bottlenecks which may be harmful or may actually impede the rate of national network growth.

Infrastructure, Innovation and the Digital Divide in Asia: Lessons from Internet production history

The News Corp.'s purchase of MySpace is looking like that rarest of rarities in the media world -- a much-ballyhooed acquisition where it turns out that the buyer underpaid.

News Corp. (hearts) MySpace | FORTUNE