Monthly Archives: April 2012

Read Rifkin’s Third Industrial Revolution

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I’m sitting in Boston right now at the CERES conference listening to Jeremy Rifkin speak about his new book, The Third Industrial Revolution.  Extremely compelling.  Read it.

The 2nd Industrial Paradigm: top-down, centralized, proprietary, closed, private, elite.  Fueled by hazardous, large-scale energy technologies (oil, coal, gas, uranium).  A very short and dangerous civilization!

The 3rd Industrial Paradigm: lateral, distributed, open, collaborative, shared, accessible.  Energy+Communication+Economy.  Post-carbon.  Unstoppable.

You know the difference when you see it, don’t you?

This applies to MBA education as much as anything else.

OccupyMBA!

The Role of the Merchant, according to Fukuoka

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Manager’s Samizdat:

“Of course, the merchant has a role to play in society, but glorification of merchant activities tends to draw people away from a recognition of the true source of life.”

- Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution (1978)

Been musing on the notion of “the Curriculum of the West” of late (see kulturCritic) – more on this later.  Fukuoka’s book, quoted above, should clearly be part of the “Management Curriculum of the West.”