BEZOS’ COLD, MICROMANAGED, time-motion approach to the workplace is a direct descendant (and extreme extension) of a theory of “scientific management”... Read more...
LEGEND HAS ITÂ that Amazon is a classic story of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. In 1994, a bright,... Read more...
While taking in the splendor of the Grand Palace in Bangkok, a tourist came across a monk and asked if... Read more...
Several pro football franchises have chosen chest-pounding team names meant to symbolize how big, powerful, ferocious, and scary they are–names... Read more...
Practically every national brand name you’ve ever heard of now slips predatory arbitration provisions into their customer terms-of-service agreements and/or... Read more...
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Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but getting your day in court is no picnic either. Aside from... Read more...
CITIZENS UNITEDÂ not only unleashed the Big Dogs of corporate money in this election, but it also unleashed mad-dog corporate bosses... Read more...
Harry Truman said, “No man should be allowed to be president who doesn’t understand hogs.” That’s never been more true... Read more...
FROM THE “LAND OF THE CLUELESS AND CONNIVING,” meet a couple of gentlemen who insist that America’s political funding system is... Read more...
“You can’t create a team spirit when the situation is so one-sided, when management gets so much and workers get... Read more...
Many of you Lowdowners have told me that you often share the newsletter with your teenagers—and even younger children. Therefore,... Read more...
Last April at the presidential Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, our very own George W. Bush attempted to... Read more...
Open wide . . . here comes another great big glob of globaloney that the Powers That Be want to... Read more...
To get a job these days, chances are you’ll have to pee in a bottle. Your intimate medical history can... Read more...
A truck stop in Tulsa has a sign that proclaims: “Kids with gas eat free.” Well, kids, Im getting gas... Read more...
Let’s pull the curtain and look at a police line-up of some of the most thuggish members of organized crime... Read more...
Last year in Paris a bunch of guys in suits met secretly to draft a document they called ‘the constitution... Read more...