Re: High Tech Temps Aren't Mourning, They are Organizing (fwd)

1999-07-18 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Michael Gurstein wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:52:41 -0700 From: Michael Givel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: High Tech Temps Aren't Mourning, They are Organizing Labor Group Wants to Organize Tech Temp Workers It seeks

Re: short article on pop. devel.

1999-07-18 Thread Thomas Lunde
Dear Peter: You have made many points, I hesitate to say good points because I disagree with some of them. Without going through all your comments, I would like to keep this at a general brainstorming rather than a nitpicking exercise. War exists. For many reasons - all of them justifiable

Apologies

1999-07-18 Thread Ed Weick
to the list for double posting my last message. My server did not show it as having gone through when it apparently had. Ed

Re: Rifkin, The End of Work/The End of Jobs

1999-07-18 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote: Ray E. Harrell wrote: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote: Ray E. Harrell wrote: [snip] I'm reminded of a friend doing research on fish behaviorat the New York Museum of Natural History. He is a psychologist and quit the team because he said that he

Re: the broad, middle class?

1999-07-18 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Ed Weick wrote: Arthur Cordell: Does this mean that we have to accept the unravelling of the success of economic development as though it is entirely outside our control? Are there no policy options or actions that we can develop? Much of my thinking and angst is to develop ways in

Re: Charles Leadbetter

1999-07-18 Thread Thomas Lunde
Title: Re: Charles Leadbetter PS: I assumed on first reading that Ian had written this lengthy post, it was only after I had read it again and written my comments that I realized it was written by Charles Leadbetter, so rather than spend the time re-writng, please accept my apoligies Ian and to

Re: Rifkin - some final words

1999-07-18 Thread Ray E. Harrell
LEADERSHIP AND COMPETENCY I have typed in portions of an article by the complexity scholar John Warfield with his permission to share. I think it bears on the pedagogy of the first part of leadership, the ability to see the levels of complication connected to the team's incompetencies

Gwynne Dyer Article

1999-07-18 Thread Thomas Lunde
Title: Gwynne Dyer Article This was in Saturday's Globe and Mail. I found it scary and enlightening and well worth a good slow read. If there is truth here, we all better be worrying more than we are - not that it will do a damn bit of good. Respectfully, Thomas Lunde The panic has passed.

Re: Charles Leadbetter

1999-07-18 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Steve Kurtz wrote: Thomas once again has given us his insightful, sobering commentary on a unidimensional, rather ephemeral perception of the human predicament. It is not realistic to continue discussing the future of work without including the future of the caloric input required for brain

Working for Nothing

1999-07-18 Thread Richard Mochelle
Tom Walker wrote: we have moved in the past 25 years since the "energy crisis" of the 1970s into a system of perverse incentives that primarily REWARDS ENERGY WASTE and implicitly penalizes resource conservation. This claim could be countered by Buckminster Fuller's notion of

Re: Charles Leadbetter

1999-07-18 Thread Tom Walker
Steve Kurtz wrote: Are there no reactions to my post about the Workfare for Capital piece? Perhaps all listmembers grasped its ideological hyperbole immediately! Context, Steve, context. Your response to Jim Stanford's piece seemed to miss the point that poor-bashing and welfare-bashing have