Curt Doolittle

Theme: Productivity

  • My job as CEO appears to include the role of chief productivity reducer, and mis

    My job as CEO appears to include the role of chief productivity reducer, and mischief maker.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-05 05:16:00 UTC

  • WHAT I LIKED ABOUT BUILDING CONSULTING COMPANIES A consulting company is little

    WHAT I LIKED ABOUT BUILDING CONSULTING COMPANIES

    A consulting company is little more than an intelligence organization that collects information from various organizations and uses it to sell solutions to different organizations where they gain new information and repeat the process.

    I love it because I learned so much every day. You get paid to do basic research on the operations of various companies. You are paid to collect information that most companies work to hide from the outside world.

    The price is volatility. You have to be able to tolerate that visibility. Consulting companies react early to economic fluctuations expanding quickly in booms and contracting quickly in recessions.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-05 02:51:00 UTC

  • (GtG influenced me heavily. I invested heavily in maturing internal staff over o

    (GtG influenced me heavily. I invested heavily in maturing internal staff over outside hires: exec university.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-03 16:16:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/650343797944119296

    Reply addressees: @johann_theron @amerika_blog

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/650315156875014145

    IN REPLY TO:

    @johann_theron

    @amerika_blog @curtdoolittle Stable Evolution (constant change management based on Risk Management). Example Collins’s “Good to Great” book

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/650315156875014145

  • “The family no longer produces; it only consumes.”— Francesco Principi

    —“The family no longer produces; it only consumes.”— Francesco Principi

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-03 07:02:00 UTC

  • Tech isn’t a competitive advantage, Experienced talent, credit, and operational

    Tech isn’t a competitive advantage, Experienced talent, credit, and operational excellence through management and training, cant be bought.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-01 13:29:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/649576870577610752

  • Tech isn’t a competitive advantage, Experienced talent, credit, and operational

    Tech isn’t a competitive advantage, Experienced talent, credit, and operational excellence through management and training, cant be bought.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-01 09:29:00 UTC

  • TECHNOLOGY IS NOT A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: EXECUTION IS. Technology is not a com

    TECHNOLOGY IS NOT A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: EXECUTION IS.

    Technology is not a competitive advantage. Nothing stops a competitor from duplicating functionality or buying hardware and software.

    A competitors advantage is created by your failure to rapidly fill niches and thereby denying them the field, without simultaneously overextending yourself.

    For these reasons experienced talent, credit, and operational excellence through management and training on execution are your competitive advantage.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-01 06:17:00 UTC

  • PRIVILEGE ENDED 1) Americans conquered a new continent 2) They sold off this con

    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/when-america-was-great-taxes-were-high-unions-were-strong-and-government-was-big/407284/POSTWAR PRIVILEGE ENDED

    1) Americans conquered a new continent

    2) They sold off this continent to immigrants

    3) They sold consumer goods to these immigrants.

    4) They caused a collapse in prices in Europe (like china does to americans today)

    5) They created new fiat money to give credit to these immigrants.

    6) They directed these profits to investment in everything including the 20’s boom.

    7) Europeans sought to control german expansion and created the european civil war.

    8) The resulting correction and the oppressive settlement with Germany led to the second world war, which was merely an extension of the first, and which destroyed the word’s economy.

    9) Americans inherited control of the British empire’s trading lanes and took over as the reserve currency.

    10) American workers benefitted from producing expensive but low quality products to a world largely destroyed by war.

    12) It took to the 1970’s for the world to reasonably rebuild.

    13) In 1990 the effects of Chinese abandonment of communism and their entry into world labor started the dramatic shift in american consumption of consumer goods, just as america had done to Europe more than a century before.

    15) In 2007 the rest of the world has largely adopted the same fiat money and consumer capitalist techniques.

    16) In 2015, Americans have lost most competitive advantages EXCEPT for their GERMANIC high trust ethics and rule of law.

    17) By 2040 Americans will lose their advantage in high trust ethics and rule of law to cultural and genetic conquest.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-29 22:54:00 UTC

  • CAPITALISM, MIXED, SOCIALISM : A EUGENIC VS DYSGENIC GAME RIGHT: Capitalism: the

    CAPITALISM, MIXED, SOCIALISM : A EUGENIC VS DYSGENIC GAME

    RIGHT: Capitalism: the voluntary organization of production as a the result of the incentives that result from the anarchic evolution of money, prices, exchanges and contracts under the single principle, norm, regulation or law of the voluntary exchange of private property. This process is naturally meritocratic and eugenic and therefore scientific, which is the reason why the marxists despise it.

    CENTER: Mixed economy: the voluntary organization of production of capitalism, combined with the involuntary confiscation and redistribution of the proceeds of production. It can be dysgenic or eugenic, meritocratic or not, depending upon the amount of confiscation and the use of confiscated proceeds. This is the least worst option in which neither lower nor upper classes can obtain better conditions. (Like marriage).

    LEFT: Socialism: the involuntary organization of production and the distribution of proceeds independent of the contribution to production. It is dysgenic and non meritocratic, and provides insufficient incentives to produce enough to meet demands. But this prevents the lower classes from being ‘left behind’ which is their central intuitionistic fear.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-29 04:50:00 UTC

  • INTUITIVE ECON: THE INTERNET INCREASES PRICES —Economists have two standard ve

    https://shar.es/17xxNnCOUNTER INTUITIVE ECON: THE INTERNET INCREASES PRICES

    —Economists have two standard very simple models of product competition: firms can compete on price or compete on quantity.—

    —“whether firms compete on price or quantity depends more on which of these they must commit to earliest, not which is easier to change at the last minute. Knowing this, once you heard that it would be easier to change prices at the last minute for products sold on internet, you should have predicted that the internet would increase quantity competition and reduce price competition. Which it in fact has. Economics is general and robust enough to predict things like how selling products on the internet changes competition. But you have to use it right.”—

    The author is trying to make a different point, but I want to riff off it to show that firms compete in commodity and non-commodity spaces. And to some degree economists study commodity activity where noise and signal cancel one another out. But that isn’t how companies think about competition, it’s how distributors do.

    I have taught the following means of competition by firms:

    1) Price,

    2) Quantity,

    3) Profitability or Debt

    4) Rents (firms like polities accumulate renters)

    5) Adaptation Costs (innovator’s dilemma).

    6) Geographic Housing Costs (salary costs)

    7) Segmentation (startups start in niches and expand)

    Why? Decreasing production cycles, increasing distribution of production, the increasing importance of TALENT and innovation service industries. vs capital or credit in manufacturing and distribution companies.

    In a highly efficient market, one can sacrifice profits for talent while larger organizations accumulate internal rents. This is most frequently the reason

    Generally speaking, higher profits incentivize more rents. And while prices are sticky, internal rents are much stickier than prices.

    Generally speaking, adaptation costs vary dramatically from industry to industry: service firms trade out people and production firms trade out people and capital. The difference being that GAP regulation and tax policy obscure the tail of fixed vs human capital, largely because we can finance against the illusion of fixed capital value while we cannot finance against the obvious lack of control over human capital.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-27 18:43:00 UTC