Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Taleb on Change

I recommend Taleb's books, and he has this to say:
Power is shifting—from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, from presidential palaces to public squares. It has become harder to wield power and easier to lose it, and the world is becoming less predictable as a result. As people become more prosperous and mobile, they are harder to control and more apt to question authority.
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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Power is shifting—from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, ..."

This quote reminds me of the "German Mittelstand."

http://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/for-qualified-professionals/working/mittelstand

All in all, more than 99 percent of German companies are SMEs (small and mid-sized companies).

Alongside the major, world-famous companies, there is also a whole range of small and medium-sized companies in Germany which provide a large number of jobs and are extremely productive: these small and medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs, make up what is known as the “Mittelstand”. This is not so much the case in other countries and in some, the German word has even been taken up into the local language because there is no exact equivalent for it. And so it’s about time we introduced the German “Mittelstand” and these very special German companies.

"Many German SMEs are – in line with the traditional German taste for inventing and “tinkering” – technology driven."

This is apparently unlike American business thinking where the mantra "Get big or get out" is how Americans think.

American companies (think Microsoft for example) seem to want to get big fast, dominate and eliminate competition through any and all means necessary (using government as a proxy), like using regulations, patent law and such, rather than truly innovating.