Rock the Global

[Chuck Munson]

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Chuck Munson wrote:
> 
> > While I have a copy of Tom Peters "Liberation Management" in my
> > apartment, I swear that it has had no influence on my activism in the
> > anti-globalization movements. I doubt that very few other activists have
> > spent any time reading managment literature.
> 
> That's not how ideology works. Ideology isn't just a text which influences
> the world (the ultimate example being legislation); it's the appearance of
> the world, the way things are organized. Walk into a supermarket and buy
> milk, and guess what -- you've participated in a vast marketing,
> distribution, retailing and production network, organized in just-in-time
> loops and overseen by awesomely complex logistical and informatic chains.

Right. See David's reply. Or Patrick's.

The tactical and political strategies that the anti-capitalist movement
may resemble some of the fashionable crap that is preached in management
circles, but there is simply little, if any, connection.

Whatever happened to TQM?

Chuck0