Updated: 9/11/06; 6:58:34 AM.
Gil Friend
Strategic Sustainability, and other worthy themes of our time
        

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

[New Scientist]: Global warming might shrink ant workers by as much as a third, says Michael Kaspari at the University of Oklahoma, US, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, who carried out the study: 'And since ant species with small workers appear to be particularly successful at invading, ant invasions - already destructive - may become more common in a warming world.'

Who'd o' thunk it. (I'm going to guess this story will be ridiculed by those ideologically opposed to global warming -- and science -- and added to the ledger by the big insurance companies' actuaries, who need to take risk seriously.)

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[The Long Tail]: The Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) argument is essentially based on commodification. Take existing goods and services and make them an order of magnitude or two cheaper, either to buy or to make but ideally both. Typically, this means reducing goods to their bare essentials and delivering them on a massive scale.... The Long Tail, on the other hand, is about nicheification.


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Now please pay me anyway.

[Right Reality]: David Batsone passes along this gem from The New York Times:
The criminal liability that chief executives now face is an odd outgrowth of the same logic that won them such huge paychecks in the 1990's. Of course they were worth millions, the chief executives of old argued, because the success of the company could not have happened without their hard-driving involvement. Now some of the same chief executives find themselves in the uncomfortable position of arguing that while they were richly compensated, when in came to corporate financial activity, they were little more than caretakers who paid little attention to details.

Can't have it both ways, folks! (I've had to learn a little finance to run my company. Shouldn't you?)

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