Experiments in workplace autonomy

Daniel H. Pink | March 2010 issue
Ode Magazine

Traditional employee management techniques are out of sync with human nature. Get ready for a renaissance of self-direction.

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Tomgram: Nick Turse, BP and the Pentagon's Dirty Little Secret

by Nick Turse
TomDispatch.com
June 17, 2010

...BP, evidently working hand-in-hand with the government, has put great effort into avoiding unnecessarily ugly photos, potentially negative stories, and unwanted information from the Gulf, by adopting methods of news control pioneered by the Pentagon in Iraq and Afghanistan. These include the “embedding” of reporters with government minders on public beaches, in the water, and in the air. It has even evidently become the norm in the Gulf now for officials to speak of reporters covering the scene as “media embeds.” In this way do our disparate disasters merge in corporate and government hands.

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BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’

by Chris Hedges
TruthDig
May 17, 2010

Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, cannibalize themselves until they die. They ruthlessly exploit the natural world and the members of their society in the name of progress until exhaustion or collapse, blind to the fury of their own self-destruction. The oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, estimated to be perhaps as much as 100,000 barrels a day, is part of our foolish death march. It is one more blow delivered by the corporate state, the trade of life for gold. But this time collapse, when it comes, will not be confined to the geography of a decayed civilization. It will be global...

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Stock Market Collapse: Another Goldman Market Rigging?

by Ellen Brown
truthout
Op Ed
May 11, 2010

Goldman and Wall Street reign. Congress appears helpless to discipline the big banks, just as the European Central Bank (ECB) appears helpless to prevent the collapse of the European Union.... Or are they?

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As Protests Mount Against San Cristobal Silver Mine, Bolivia Looks to Extract Massive Lithium Reserves, But at What Cost?

DemocracyNow!
April 20, 2010

We look at why Bolivian miners have staged a major protest at the San Cristobal mine, one of the world’s largest silver mines. We speak to journalist Jean Friedman-Rudovsky about the protest and about lithium, one of the most important new energy sources. Bolivia’s lithium reserves are estimated to be the largest in the world.

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Protecting Companies That Mix Profitability, Values

by APRIL DEMBOSKY
Morning Edition
March 09, 2010
National Public Radio

..."Now, a network of lawyers across the country is working to change the law so that social entrepreneurs can grow their businesses without risking their visions..."

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From New York to Liberia, Investigative Journalist Greg Palast Tracks Vulture Funds Preying on African Debt

DemocracyNow!
March 03, 2010

Over the last five years, Britain, the United States and other countries have written off billions of dollars in loans to the world’s poorest countries. But a small group of vulture funds have been trying to divert that money into their own pockets. Investigative journalist Greg Palast traveled to the West African country of Liberia to investigate how vulture funds have been operating there and why Liberia lost a $20 million case against two vulture funds in a British court.

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Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Landmark Apartheid Reparations Case

DemocracyNow!
January 12, 2009

A landmark case against several international corporations accused of aiding South Africa’s apartheid regime is underway. The companies include Daimler AG, General Motors, Ford Motor Company and IBM. They are accused in a class-action lawsuit of complicity in human rights abuses during the years they did business in apartheid South Africa. The suit was filed several years ago by black victims of white minority rule. Their lawyers are seeking up to $400 billion in compensation...

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