Old Boomers, New Boom

WILL OUR POLITICS CATCH UP WITH CHANGES IN OUR ECONOMY?

Charles R. Morris February 11, 2013 - 10:52am

An old joke about business management consultants is that if a client company is centralized, they tell management to decentralize; and if it’s decentralized, they straight-facedly urge centralization. The truth is that such seemingly inconsistent advice is almost always right.

There is no correct form of business organization: each one solves certain problems and creates others. If a diversified manufacturing company is...

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Charles R. Morris is the author of The Sages (PublicAffairs Books), The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (PublicAffairs Books), and many other books. He is a fellow of the Century Foundation.

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