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PhD economics, author of two novels and numerous articles on business, economics, behaviour, empowerment and other topics in both popular and academic publications. Preferred dog is Ben, a Flatcoated Retriever.

The Magic Mix: Easy Solutions to All Pressing Needs Available Here

Ever wonder the magic mix needed to sustain enterprises that never deliver on promises. Countless endeavour over the millennia, some just successful, others hugely so, have come and gone, built entirely on myth, scant to non-existent evidence, hearsay and, of course, outright lies. Why didn’t the masses, for example, of 10th Century Europe, as the feudal enterprise was planting roots and taking away their long entrenched system of group decision making, simply rise up against the relatively small number of thugs turning them into landless peasants? Continue reading The Magic Mix: Easy Solutions to All Pressing Needs Available Here

Sloth and Gluttony: the food industry’s secret weapons

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Excerpt from “A Bush in Hand”

Ending a meeting on a sour note was something Abelard did not believe to be good for morale. After the short break and the public, summary execution which sent Badger and Taylor to outplacement hell, Abelard turned the crowd’s attention to lighter, more amusing and potentially very rewarding distractions. How, he asked, to no one in particular, could they lever Pharma to ever greater accomplishments? Continue reading Sloth and Gluttony: the food industry’s secret weapons

The End is Nigh; for sure; perhaps, could be, unless….

Ronald Wright in his splendid “A Short History of Progress,” makes a very strong argument that human civilization, in all its manifold forms, will collapse. That is, unless something is done to stop the accelerating environmental damage from the juggernaut of opportunistic development. Continue reading The End is Nigh; for sure; perhaps, could be, unless….

Book Three: OVERHEATING

In the first two books of the Abelard Chronicles there are tantalizing hints as to Abelard’s origins but no full narrative on his life. How did he acquire his extraordinary skills as a warrior and, most of all, how did his mind end up working like your normal corporate honcho’s, only in its extreme versions – his solutions to vexatious situations usually mean a quick recourse to violence? Does he really come from the 14th Century? Continue reading Book Three: OVERHEATING