http://writinginthewild.com "nothing natural about it!" Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://writinginthewild.com/2012/02/01/honest-and-empty/ http://writinginthewild.com/2012/02/01/honest-and-empty/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:16:22 +0000 Ray Watkins http://writinginthewild.com/?p=5279 "There will always be some leaders who choose to manage for the short term ... particularly when they hold the highly liquid equity stakes that the leadership of private-sector institutions sometimes receive as part of their compensation. This isn't a theoretical issue; it has happened." Andrew Rossen, quoted in 'Change.edu' and the Problem With For-Profits by Robert M. Shireman I work in the proprietary sector, and I think that Rossen is correct. You cannot offer huge salaries and bonuses for short=term profitability and expect executives and managers to think long-term. In such a situation, as Shireman rightly points out, "The temptations to do ill are unrelenting." Interestingly, Shireman calls Rosen's ideas both "refreshingly honest" and "empty." It's hard to disagree. What I don't...]]> http://writinginthewild.com/2012/02/01/honest-and-empty/feed/ 0 http://writinginthewild.com/2012/01/04/pots-and-kettles/ http://writinginthewild.com/2012/01/04/pots-and-kettles/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:46:56 +0000 Ray Watkins http://writinginthewild.com/?p=5213 economy. I think our industry emerged in an economic culture that was far too unregulated and far too greedy. I think we need more regulation and I think that our industry doesn't need to be so narrowly focused on short-term profits. We share all the problems of modern U.S. capitalism, in other words. I am also often dismayed at the way problems in the for-profit sector seem to be used as cover for the more profound problems in the public sector.  These problems are dwarfed by the exploitation of adjunct labor, bloated  administrative salaries, the weakening of tenure, the...]]> http://writinginthewild.com/2012/01/04/pots-and-kettles/feed/ 0