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He's using the web to expand his enjoyment of economics, management and political sports—as
the world now has a new expanded
marketplace for ideas—and its open 24/7/365!
A multiple graduate of a major American university, he managed
one of the larger consulting firms near it, and has studied elsewhere, including
in grad school, in Europe—with university degrees (in alphabetical order) in: Economics, Finance,
Government, and Management/marketing. (Working for and with endeavors of
all sizes, from the Fortune 500 to entrepreneurial start-ups, to political
campaigns.)
He has also taught all of the subjects in the previous paragraph as well as political science and entrepreneurship (starting a program in that subject), for universities and
colleges for many years (graduate, undergraduate, adjunct), graduated with
high honors, and has held numerous offices in professional associations and
corporations. He has worked with political campaigns
(with candidates and initiatives, as staff and consultant), businesses and governments (as management,
official and consultant), publishers (as writer and editor), and organizations
designed to assist them (political parties, coalitions, NGOS, consultants,
advertising agencies, lobbyists and researchers/pollsters). (His career has
forshaddowed some of the writings of many new management thinkers, who foresee
individuals having many careers over a lifetime, some consecutively, some concurrently
Preferring to be a ‘change
agent,’ ‘plowing new ground—outside
of the box’—often to the consternation of the great many who devote their
professions and lives to resisting change and protecting their rearends, within their well guarded ‘career silos’ and 'personal turf'. His fields of
specialization include: Economics (supply-side, free-market, Austrian,
classical, political economy); Behavioral economics (voter- business-
consumer-behavior, economic psychology); Entrepreneurship (formal planning,
venture capital); Marketing (marketing concept, consumer behavior, advertising,
communication); Management (strategic planning, practice, theory, non-profit);
Research (qualitative, quantitative, literature); Finance (equity and debt,
government, taxation); Business (retailing, restauranting,
consultancy, publishing, logding, advertising)—as well as Ethics and Creativity (two fields which have yet to be
broken away from philosophy).
(The importance of change, and how so many instinctively
resist it, was emphasized to him at an early age by his father, who worked in
large-scale organizational development. He had to frequently
overcome the problem that so many of the effected thought was a
sufficient reason to resist any change (as most still do): But
that’s not the way we’ve always done it.)
Politically, he comes from the American tradition of minimalist
government and free enterprise (the Right side of the political spectrum),
having been born and living most of his life in the US (in several states).
(One fourth Irish and three fourth's German ancentry). (While he has never
been a Democrat, in college he did join the Sierra Club [mostly for their
outings], and was a proud member until it was hijacked by the radical anti-capitalism
Left—as most of the good old conservation organizations have been. You can
still find Republicans in their ranks-and-files, but not in their national
leaderships. He is still an avid conservationist, past active Aububon Society
member and officer, but was never an environmentalist, and thinks everyone
should know the difference. Its Aldo Leopold and Sigurd F. Olson [whom we
recommend reading] vs. Paul Ehrlich and Barry Commoner [whom we don't].)
He’s also interested in, [in alphabetical order]: earth sciences [geology,
astronomy]; history [western civilization]; nature [ornithology, photography-has
led nature hikes in parks], sports, wine and woodworking.) His major academic interest is economics—from the Hayek, von Mises Austrian side.
More to the point (if only slightly), he’s also unconventional, curious, a futurist,
veteran (USNR), trekie, birder, speed reader, part-time nonconformist, and a full-time generalist and rejecter of
‘pigeon-holing’—believing that day-to-day experience is the slowest and most
inefficient way to acquire knowledge, recommending instead: Other People’s Experience
(OPE), the kind that one can read and study here and elsewhere. He has been frequently published on dead trees, and is still a
lover of large university libraries and book collections—not having sold his soul completely to
the cybergods.)
Taking note of three things from the above: Being interested
in free market economics, entrepreneurship and nature, he’s not a Democrat
of any color, but also not a big corporate Republican either—opposing both
social and corporate welfare and subsidies, and anyone who wants to pervert,
subvert, or insulate themselves from the free market for personal gain, or
to support legislation for their selfish benefit—whether from the Left or
the Right—preferring to fund externalities. (He is also proud that he does
not have degrees in law, journalism or political science, believing that they are more conducive
to politics than policy—especially economic. They are frequently too much in the weeds of day-to-day nitty-gritty—far
more into politics than policy. [Lawyers in politics like confrontation too
much, journalists like the 'horse race' too much, and too many Poli-Sci majors
actually think politics is a science.] He
has, however, taken many courses in constitutional and business law, writing
and communications, and Poli-Sci. Actually, he has more electives than he'd
care to admit.])
Professionally, his specialties include: interdisciplinary
analysis, strategic planning, research, and competitive tactics. In short,
he has experience as a manager, planner, researcher, lecturer, speaker, and
writer, as well as surfer on the slippery slopes of politics—not to mention,
mixer of metaphors and splitter of infinitives.
(Specific references have purposely been omitted
from this to avoid the above denigrated pigeonholing.)
Favorite quote:
A glimpse into the future is worth a lifetime of hindsight!
Favorite sayings:
It’s like the Pony
Express trying to breed faster horses
in an attenmpt to compete with the new telegraph.
Nothing is so practical as a good theory.
Studies
show that the inner phenomenon we call daydreaming is an important imaginative
process which marketably increases creativity.
(The clipping it is on has been on our family's bullitin board so long it is brown and tattered [long before I learned
to cite]—hoping to deter those who watch me too close.)
Another
favorite cause for pause:
Time flies like the wind, and fruit flies like bananas.
Least favorite sayings:
Keep it simple stupid.
All politics is local.
Note: All of the above authors are unknown, and we
would like to learn who they are.
Additionally, he is proud to be a citizen of a nation with a 'battle hymn', especially one so forceful and bold!
Further additions pending. . .
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9) ♦ Recommended Great
Books (Still under construction too---probably always will be.)
- While it’s not a book on public policy or politics, it is one of the best refutations of the dictionary
definition of conservative (tending to oppose change, restrained in style,
cautious), and a great book on the management of anything: Tom Peters’, Thriving on Chaos. For our
purposes, Section V is highly recommended: A quote from it I have used often
with students and clients, and we will try to emulate here:
Each
day, each manager must practically challenge conventional wisdom, especially
cause and effect relations that have been considered axiomatic. (I think Schumpter would agree.)
- This book is on policy and politics as much as it is
on anything, as it applies universally. Thin but powerful, a genius of an idea
about ideas: James Webb Young’s, A
Technique for Producing Ideas.
- If you are not familiar with the term “statist,”
which we use frequently, this book will explain it further: Let us recommend
the first part of: Virginia Postrel’s, The Future and its Enemies. Like so many
of us, Virginia found it easier to identify and classify our enemies (which she
does so well), than knowing what to do next. The concept that our political
enemies are also the enemies of our world’s future is valuable.
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