“From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.” PeopleProblemLeftViewsCompanyAirMinesIndustryMountainAreasPoint Of ViewLocalsStreamsChemicalsToxicCoalCousinBlastCozyToxic ChemicalsAquifers Author:Jeff Goodell
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“With conglomerates selling companies to liquidators, who close down plants and move to non-union areas, it's about time progressive union leaders step in to stop such job-losing tactics... ESOP should become a part of future bargaining packages!” ShouldWisdomJobsMovingPoliticsCompanyLeaderStepsEconomyLosingAreasUnionsPlantSellingLiberalismProgressiveTacticsPackagesBargainingEsops Author:Tom Colicchio
“One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldTryingWould BeEyeCompanyTechnologyOne ThingProductsExerciseAreasImprovingUnderestimateHigh Technology Author:Bill Gates
“There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense.” KindDifferentBigsMovingPoliticalFightingCan DoCommonCitiesCompanyPracticeStruggleExampleTelevisionBuildingAreasStrategyCommon SenseSquaresConventionalCablesMosaicsPolitical StruggleCheckerboard Author:Gar Alperovitz
“If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.” IfsShouldJobsCitiesCompanyParticularAreasShould HaveAssumingPopulationLogicalCategories Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.” PeopleWorldCountryHandsBlackCompanyEconomyConditionsDrugAreasLaborThirdsPrisonComplexesAlternativesCorporationsBlack PeopleBetter LifeProfitableThird WorldMigrationIndustrialization Author:Angela Davis
“I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence.” ThinkingInspirationalMightCompanyGrowingAreasStrongerDeeperBankingRetailGetting StrongerTelecommunications Author:Larry Ellison
“Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks.” MeanGovernmentCompanySupportRiskStageResearchAreasInvestingFinancingGreat RiskBasic Research Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put the right amount of effort. This tool can help those looking at Warehouse Management Systems get their arms around this key issue.” HelpingEffortCompanyIssuesArmsKeysAmountCostAreasToolsManagementCriticalOwnershipWarehouseVendorsEstimatingManagement Systems Author:Dan Gillmor