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Should we pay attention to: Curing the disease when it is already transmitted (attack the problem that we can see)? or Preventing the disease from being transmitted (defend ourselves from the problem?) or ‘Cure’ ‘the reason that causes the disease to be transmitted (what causes the problem)? Let’s take this situation. Suppose there is a couple, both … Continue reading National Article 18: What would it take to ‘cure’ HIV?
UNEMPLOYMENT = SUPPLY OF LABOUR > DEMAND FOR LABOUR In a country, where levels of unemployment stay persistent over time, then it is a sign that the rates of growth of the supply of labour (population numbers -” child creation”) each year is growing at rates faster than the rate of growth of the demand for … Continue reading Regional Article 17: Is unemployment real?
Stressed so I took my boss hostage (thesun.co.uk) I found this part interesting: Thompson then tied his victim to a chair and subjected him to a 20-minute ordeal that left Mr Grady suffering depression and post-traumatic stress. He remains off work five months later. The court heard the worker (Thomson) told his boss: “This is the … Continue reading National Article 16: So, who is the (real) criminal?
Or does one choose to work because one wants to carve a career (to advance the public or private good) for oneself and for others?
Focussing on how one teaches or how one learns? Can one exclude the other? Which would lead the other within the school system? When a student shows he has understood (by his grades) what the teacher has taught him, would that mean he is learning? Would that mean should the teacher stop teaching (such as … Continue reading National Article 14: What is the right answer?
Maybe somethings are best if we did not start them at all! But the ball has been running since there were men (and women) – kind. http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_missing_graph/4647545119/lightbox/ Hmm ….
Because one foot really cannot make a difference to the game till the team is willing to work as a team but more importantly works to defend for its nation. Yet we all relish that one foot that kicks “the dream goal” to reality! It is what glues us all to the set and the … Continue reading National Article 12: Maybe the name ‘football’ is misleading
It is classic! Perhaps we are working longer number of hours but we are also not the most productive. How is that possible? Data extracted on 25 Feb 2012 16:34 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat Data from 1979: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/42/35205504.pdf Frequency Annual Time 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Country Australia 1 780 1 739 … Continue reading National Article 11: A Case of Productivity! Really?
Without a belief in oneself and others can we really expect to see performance by oneself, the organization and the country (what about the region, the world) improve over time? Should, let us say for the sake of argument, that we do not believe in ourselves and others, is there a price that we would … Continue reading National Article 10: Do we have “systems” to measure performance because we have lost beliefs in ourselves and others and we cannot talk about the loss?
Is there such a thing as systemic development of industries? We can tell what systematic is. Yes? But what about systemic development of industries? Let us take a context. Let us say we wish to see the industry of dairy production grow within the country. What needs to happen that would enable the sustained development … Continue reading Regional Article 9: Systemic Development of Industries in a Nation. What would that look like?
… what we did to give in generating the revenue or increasing it and more importantly sustaining the increase (so we know we got it right!) so that it would allow the country (or organizations) to pay us increments? What contributes to the revenue rising? More sales (not increased prices – that is not real) and … Continue reading National Article 8: Do we demand pay increments based on what we need to spend on or ….
And bound by a belief that our views of the world and our aspirations cannot be ‘brought out into the world for others to see’? Job descriptions, yes they describe the job we do or that someone should do. But it is that ubiquitous clause at the end that always says, ‘To carry and obey all lawful orders … Continue reading National Article 7: Is Job Descriptions a cover-up for hiding otherwise our fears or our aspirations at the workplace?
Remember, without demand there will be no supply. At the marketplace it is the demand (overt or otherwise) that drives supply! Take anything: Peddling of fake sex drugs Peddling of counterfeit cigarettes Peddling by prostitutes Addiction to gambling Addiction to alcohol consumption Addiction to smoking Rise of HIV/AIDs epidemic Rise of inflation Price wars Availability … Continue reading National Article 6: When things go wrong, should we “go after” the supply or the demand?
“What would it take to see the levels of education in the country rise without having the need to set standards (and the government having to invest in) for it?” Hmm …. have we thought of this question? As a country? To appreciate the question, first we will need to find out what is causing … Continue reading National Article 5: Is life one big party … and then four days of study? When do we learn? Or did the dead cat just killed our curiosity?
Looking at the picture above, what do you think? It really is not as haphazard as we think, is it? There is an order. Clue: Look towards the right where they start. What do you notice about the land in the areas? Do they tend to be green or brown?
Are the two worlds really that different or there is merely a thin line separating the two? Are these two worlds defined by the women or by the men or by both or by persons beyond the couple? I had a surreal experience yesterday. I was on my way to an engagement party and I … Continue reading National Article 3: Lands of ‘Princesses’ and ‘Prostitutes’!
As you read the article. notice how many times we broke the laws of dynamic complexity. These laws govern the nature of dynamic (recurrent problems) complexity. I see three laws here. They are laws 8, 6 and 4. I have listed the laws against the text of the article below and the explanations at … Continue reading Regional Article 2: What really caused the eurozone crisis? BBC News Dec 22, 2011
The Ministry of Agriculture is noticing the following situation (Case 1, Case 2, Case 3). We pray for the rains to come. And they do, eventually. Often when we are at our most desperate. Sometimes they do not. It is possible someone out there is praying for rains not to come. There are inconveniences the … Continue reading Regional Article 1: The Vegetation We Choose to Plant Can Cause Droughts. Are we our own worst enemies?
One day my neighbor as he passed by my garden, noticed how the grass in my garden appeared greener than the ones in his garden. The next day he approaches his gardener and asks, “Tell me my man, why is the grass in Sheila’s garden greener than the one in mine?” In all humility, the … Continue reading Hello World! The grass can be greener on your side.
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