Sportsmanship expresses an aspiration or ethos that the activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors.
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The purpose of this theory sketch is to show the causes of the level of economic corporate development of a society using the theory as set out by Fukuyama in his book.
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Gift cultures are adaptations not to scarcity but to abundance. They arise in populations that do not have significant material-scarcity problems with survival goods.
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Rampant privatization based upon some misguided notion that markets are always best, privatization that does not proceed by first ensuring that market incentives are consistent with the public interest, doesn't do us any good.
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a pair of researchers from Cornell University and Arizona State University propose a model, based on tug-of-war theory, that may explain the selection pressures that mark the evolutionary transition from primitive society to superorganism.
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China is about to present a formidable low cost challenge to leading companies in the global wind turbine industry -- posing a significant threat to their long term competitiveness, growth and profitability.
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As the cost of college continues to rise, but the college/high school earnings differential levels off, [...] more people may look for lower cost alternatives to the traditional residential universities.
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the for-profit model can and does work well --often far more efficiently than the traditional, bureaucratic, less competitive, model that dominates American higher education.
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trying to make some town into the next Silicon Valley by attracting the best scientists is rather like trying to start a new baseball team and turn it into the New York Yankees.
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Microformats and RDFa show all the classic signs of an upcoming ''de jure'' vs. ''de facto'' standards dispute.
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We are overwhelmed by information, but the biggest problem is not managing that information. It’s getting our message through all of that information. Students who can not produce messages that compete for attention will not be literate.
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I’d like my kids to be educated not just to show up on time, effectively navigate bureaucracy, and compete well in social word/power games, but to creative and entrepreneurial with the ability to make the kind of meaning that other people need.
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For the US and Europe, increasing the numbers of science and engineering graduates seems a policy prescription for economic despair. Creative differentiation - not competitive confrontation - is the real human capital challenge.
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The only sustainable edge will come from accelerating the pace of capability building, rather than relying on any specific set of innovations in tacit interactions.
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Creativity cannot be taught, but it can be killed. What fosters creativity in the United States is the whole multifaceted experience of growing up: the soccer games, the orchestra performances, the opportunities to pick and choose courses...
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Competition inspires people to do what we didn't think we could do. If people got to choose their kids' school, education options would be endless.
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Too many of [American textbooks] are pedagogically dishonest, so thoroughly massaged to mollify competing political and identity-group interests as to paint a startlingly misleading picture of America and its history.
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Comparative excellence style prestige is pretty clearly going to correlate with greater earnings in general. The higher the prestige in a domain, the fiercer the bidding from clients for access.
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As of today, the new equation is that all computers can run Windows, but some, the special ones from Apple, also run Mac OS X. [...] The point is that it recasts Macs from being “different” to being “special”.
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
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