{"id":4349,"date":"2009-12-20T08:35:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T08:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/20\/links-for-2009-12-20\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T08:35:06","slug":"links-for-2009-12-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/20\/links-for-2009-12-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-12-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/economy\/wagoner-henderson\">Upper Mismanagement | The New Republic<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Since 1965, the percentage of graduates of highly-ranked business schools who go into consulting and financial services has doubled, from about one-third to about two-thirds. And while some of these consultants and financiers end up in the manufacturing sector, in some respects that&#8217;s the problem. Harvard business professor Rakesh Khurana, with whom I discussed these questions at length, observes that most of GM&#8217;s top executives in recent decades hailed from a finance rather than an operations background. (Outgoing GM CEO Fritz Henderson and his failed predecessor, Rick Wagoner, both worked their way up from the company&#8217;s vaunted Treasurer&#8217;s office.) But these executives were frequently numb to the sorts of innovations that enable high-quality production at low cost. As Khurana quips, &#8220;That&#8217;s how you end up with GM rather than Toyota.&#8221; &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/finance\">finance<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/dec\/19\/when-it-changed-book-review\">When It Changed, edited by Geoff Ryan | Book review | Books | The Guardian<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Geoff Ryman thinks that a lot of science fiction writers, faced by this difficulty, may have given up, and that a lot of science fiction &#8211; particularly what appears on TV and film &#8211; is little more than cowboys in space. In a courageous and innovative attempt to get genuine frontier science back into science fiction, he has teamed up writers with scientists so they can be brought up to speed on the latest developments and those developments can inform their fiction. The result is a highly engaging and fascinating collection of short stories, each with an enlightening afterword by the story&#8217;s scientific midwife.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmartset.com\/article\/article12070901.aspx\">The Smart Set: The Family Jewels &#8211; December 7, 2009<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve heard of the Shroud of Turin and the many pieces of the True Cross, but unbeknownst to a lot of us, there were &#8212; and in many cases, still are &#8212; bits and pieces of the Holy Family on display and ready for your veneration. Here are my 10 favorites.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/religion\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/offthekuff.com\/wp\/?p=24526\">Saturday video break: More Muppets &#8211; Off the Kuff<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Now this is how the &#8220;Carol of the Bells&#8221; should be done:&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/youtube\">youtube<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/holiday\">holiday<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/muppets\">muppets<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nbbNTwWabKA\">YouTube &#8211; Badger In The City<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/animals\">animals<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/youtube\">youtube<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upper Mismanagement | The New Republic &#8220;Since 1965, the percentage of graduates of highly-ranked business schools who go into consulting and financial services has doubled, from about one-third to about two-thirds. And while some of these consultants and financiers end up in the manufacturing sector, in some respects that&#8217;s the problem. Harvard business professor Rakesh&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/20\/links-for-2009-12-20\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2009-12-20<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}