The Methodic Hypocrite

don't you love it?

2011-12-14T11:38:00.001Z

when the "elite" set's such fine standards ... for the rest of us common mortals ...

No that is not an honest argument

2011-12-07T08:22:00.000Z

‎...there's a bit of a problem in the argument.. it looks almost kinda "natural"... (an unpredictable movement in teutonic plates)... however...and since I studied the subject for years ...let's look at the beginning shall we? the mandelbrot fractal is sensitive to the initial conditions (it is not determined by them but it is sensitive...) so ... if we introduce regulations ... watchdogs (that do watch) ... eliminate the "moral risk" ( the open invitation to risk taking given the certitude of a bailout...) than ... the system might behave in a different pattern ... savvy?

chaos and complexity theories do not "justify" or forgive or allow or warrant the behavior of the likes of Corozine and Paulson and Fuld

smile

2011-11-01T14:31:00.000Z

training people to smile ...spontaneously .... with chinese sticks .... keep them from falling down and do not touch them with your lips ...

no limits for inflicting unnecessary suffering to people working for peanuts

invest

2011-07-05T19:04:00.001+01:00

Ethics ... or the society we want ...do we?

2011-04-11T18:13:00.001+01:00

Freedom of choice or chose the freedom

2011-02-11T00:13:00.000Z

According to an Harvard Business Review article, customer value should be the number one concern for the new dawn of corporate life. They argue that shareholder value was not increased by professionalizing management and latter making companies public as it was argued by Berle or Chandler.

Thus, the new focus should be the customer. That is certainly in line with the recent bible of every marketing pundit.

But is this what really happens? Is that the every day experience people have in their relationship with companies? Large or small. Multinational or local.

Do people feel the wonders promised by the excitement that adds bring? Do people feel part of a dream world where happy consumers are the center and the purpose of companies? Is it really the time to replace Kottler’s four p’s for the new age four e’s? Experiment, emotions, excitement, exchange! A sort of everlasting here and now wonderful world of happiness provided you are perpetually shopping some stuff…

Do people actually live inside a Starbucks café?

Or do people increasingly feel mistreated by impersonal robots making outbound calls to assess customer “satisfaction”? By denial tactics every time you try claim a guarantee?

In Europe the law requires companies to supply a two year guarantee over parts, components and the general functions of equipments or software. Nevertheless, Apple only complies with a standard one year guarantee and “pushes” the second year to it’s distributors who are “forced” by customers to comply, not without, or before, being subject to several tactics to dismiss responsibility or to avoid the fulfillment of these guarantees.

In an age of “social networks” these behaviors might lead to problems such as boycotts or bad publicity. But do companies really care? Are these bubbles of noise generated by disgruntled consumers really damaging company’s reputations?

Does it really payoff to be the nice guy? Or if one trains employees into several tactics to discourage consumers to demand their rights in the end they are able to reduce to 1% the consumers that actually walk the mile and get the replacement, the repair, the compensation just a minor cost.

The capitalist credo states that people enjoy and have greater liberty of choice because freedom to do business in open free markets generates greater wealth and diversity of offers. Plus capitalism has a bonus. It walks hand in hand with democracy, transparency and political freedom.

Does it really?

Martin, R (2010) The Age of Consumer Capitalism. Harvard Business Review. January –February (58-65)

perhaps

2008-11-16T10:15:00.002Z

this is the emotional intelligence thing they keep talking about....

no commmments

2008-10-04T11:41:00.001+01:00

Paradise

2008-07-13T12:10:00.002+01:00

is not here....

miracle

2008-07-12T19:26:00.000+01:00

the collapse of the american dream?

2008-06-07T20:50:00.001+01:00

from a US senator....if you dare the booklet of the letters senator has received are here

the cash in cash out

2008-04-30T01:02:00.002+01:00

no regulations for the private inflow ....plenty of rescue plans when things go wrong ........private profits public losses.....

Free Tibet

2008-03-23T21:30:00.002Z

Open mind...

2008-03-13T09:43:00.000Z

we have a great deal to learn from our betters...

4

2008-03-06T17:42:00.000Z

Blackwater

2008-02-26T16:44:00.002Z

in search of a vision

2008-02-19T22:07:00.002Z

cost cutting?.... layoffs? yahooligans going to penniless jobs?

Evasion

2008-02-14T18:38:00.001Z

well... a Wagnerian saga.....

Inspiration

2008-02-05T11:21:00.001Z

Artifacts

2008-02-03T21:23:00.002Z

new trend new allegiance

2008-01-29T23:03:00.000Z

commitment? what is that?....generation Y new patterns......soon to replace the old generation x and to take role in a society...

cookin

2008-01-27T18:31:00.000Z

the rhetoric of wishful thinking

2008-01-23T22:27:00.000Z

globally deluding

franchising

2008-01-17T10:36:00.000Z

Al-Qaida is franchising new business ventures......while the rhetoric is changing and is now less "evangelical" ........ maybe we can now focus on the issue of fighting the real dangerous and not the scores that where to be settled.....

Olimpics

2008-01-13T17:14:00.000Z

ahhhhh

2008-01-10T15:36:00.000Z

the phenomena ........... the next generation....

river

2008-01-05T12:42:00.000Z

melting down $100 bn

2008-01-02T14:14:00.000Z

without magic....just stupidity and greed.........

the who gives a fuck series

2007-12-30T10:30:00.000Z

so much human suffering.... maybe we ought to start a charity...

purity

2007-12-27T20:58:00.000Z

again and again and again...

2007-12-25T10:41:00.000Z

competition in free markets is evil...

melting down?

2007-12-21T12:04:00.000Z

just some cracks or a trend?....

voodoo also helps

2007-12-19T11:44:00.000Z

emotionally bonded... right..... ....

say what?

2007-12-14T15:16:00.000Z

this must be a nightmare....

center

2007-12-13T21:52:00.000Z

indeed

2007-12-08T18:01:00.000Z

why would billionaires get married? ...if only they would be human beings....

reversing the wheel of fortune

2007-12-04T09:40:00.001Z

back home where the glory is ...after all...

rust

2007-11-30T20:56:00.000Z

ah! the alternative

2007-11-26T11:53:00.000Z

on the right corner wearing blue trunks a corrupt dictator prone on the left corner wearing red trunks another corrupt dictator prone........ freedom of choice....

soon

2007-11-24T17:57:00.000Z

they should also be taught of breast cancer early diagnosis techniques........ and to recognize the signs of prostate cancer...

seed

2007-11-23T17:00:00.000Z

fixing prices

2007-11-21T22:45:00.000Z

competition is a nuisance......but let us keep the faith..one day a free market will be found...

The Quest

2007-11-20T10:52:00.000Z

ahhhh ....the Holy Grail of the XXI Century Schizoid Man....

1 million

2007-11-18T20:53:00.000Z

you need google to find the right one...

Us and Them

2007-11-14T15:16:00.000Z

the usefulness of the "external common enemy"...

now what?

2007-11-12T21:53:00.000Z

where's the general? ....and the nuclear weapons?

wanna job?

2007-11-11T15:11:00.000Z

classic

2007-11-10T23:08:00.000Z

soon

2007-11-10T14:20:00.000Z

Lenin's corpse on eBay....

what a bunch of loonies

2007-11-08T22:57:00.000Z

waiting for a phone??? in the rain??!!!

The conundrum

2007-11-06T10:34:00.000Z

national borders and jurisdiction vis-a-vis this crossborder processes....

food for thought

2007-11-04T10:33:00.000Z

thinking beyond the stereotype...

Health

2007-11-01T16:26:00.000Z

throwing nuclear bombs increases life expectancy....

fascinating

2007-10-27T22:42:00.000+01:00

All three Democratic candidates are speaking very personally, in evangelical language, about their own faith. What does Clinton pray about? “It depends upon the time of day,” she said. Edwards says he cannot name his greatest sin: “I sin every single day.” Obama talks about his introduction to “someone named Jesus Christ” and about being “an instrument of God.”....

sounds like the Bible Belt will deviate....

the same old story

2007-10-27T18:55:00.000+01:00

it seams that the usual suspects will be punished.......

White Jazz

2007-10-27T14:26:00.001+01:00

Pink

2007-10-23T20:41:00.001+01:00

Old hag

2007-10-22T10:11:00.000+01:00

that has been barren since she was born gaved birth to three twins after reading Lisbon's Treaty!

Hermeneutics 101

2007-10-21T14:07:00.000+01:00

bullshit times ahead........

the who gives a fuck series....

2007-10-18T18:22:00.000+01:00

devastating news ...how will the lambda constant react?

Argument

2007-10-17T14:21:00.000+01:00

Yes good choice

2007-10-17T12:36:00.000+01:00

the guy beaten up by George W should take care of post traumatic stress issues along with turning off some lights at home.... and keep charging some 200.000 for his evangelical speeches...

Well

2007-10-16T20:38:00.000+01:00

I was unaware of such promising career in the US. Whistleblower. ... Reporting atheists....uau!

I wanna report this guy..."The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved --Judaism, Christianity, Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal --God is the omnipotent father-- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. "

Selling off

2007-10-16T17:56:00.000+01:00

at cheap rates.......

what if we trade chemistry (useless subject anyway) for a class on McNutrition? And Math for a class preparing kids for TV castings?

Nevertheless....there are some dissenting voices ........

Nothing like a free market

2007-10-15T11:05:00.000+01:00

don't you just love an honest competitive market? transparency and all....