April 2010
19 posts
“In american business there are a lot of creative people, but there are only a...”
– Theodore Levitt
A business model framework
This framework helps to customer plan that resolves several business model elements and was recommended by MIT in 2010.
“The only way to control inflation is intentionally provoke crisis.”
– Monetarism
Knowledge to the masses!
Slogan is “Knowledge to the masses!” is not as funky as it seems. Giving knowledge to the masses leads to high competition on the labor market. That leads to the situation, where the number of only highly qualified people have a privileged places. But this is only one of the fit back loops (positive one).
Grows of people with knowledge faces the limits in privileged places and effects on the...
Rainfall on the sidewalk
I always asked myself, how it is possible to stand in front of the rain. You know this situation, when you are standing and looking at the rain wall absolutely dry, and within a several seconds you are standing wet.
An example of this situation can be simulated on a 10 square foot block. Initially, a 10 square foot block of sidewalk is completely dry. Rain begins to fall at a constant...
“It is hard to make people happy, but I know, we should try a little bit more.”
– Jeff Bezos
Predator model and Leadership
Thinking of “Wolves are being used to improve German business skill” by BBC we tried to figure out, how does predatory behavior can effect leadership.
Some people think that leaders are born; some think that every person can become a leader. We think that leaders can be represented as “born” from common people.
Some little adaptations to the Simgua “Predator...
“From the customer point of view, marketing is not a function, its business.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Tibetan fragrance meditation
One of the easiest ways to meditate is to look at smouldering tip of a fragrance, sitting in a cross-legged posture and turn off the lights.
Let us take Tibetan fragrance as an example. Note that usually they don’t have a wooden base.
The length of Tibetan fragrances differs, depending on their type, so differs the time of their smoldering.
The speed of fragrance smoldering in general...
Gayatri Mantra
24-hour opened Coffeehouse model
The administrator employs several workers, but not all of them are at work at the same time. The stock of “Workers” in the model measures only the number of workers who work in the Coffeehouse at a specific time.
Each worker is able to prepare a certain number of cups every hour, determined by the parameter called “Productivity.”
In this model, “Productivity” is 20 cups per worker per hour....
“Predatory capitalism created complicated system of production and developed...”
– Noam Chomssky 