Saturday 31 October 2020

Post No. 1,692 - Posts from my Other Blogs

This week (and, for this first post: recently) I have made the following posts on my other blogs:

Political Musings of Kayleen:

  • Choices in a democracy - including inaction / foolish action / allowing evil
    There is a story about a boy in the Netherlands who put his finger in a leak in a dyke, and thereby prevented a flood. That story has all sorts of lessons in it, but the one I am thinking of is that of taking a small action to prevent something "bad" happening - such as, to choose a range of examples, listening to your doctor on health matters and those urging simple measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, acting early to stop despots like hitler coming  to  power - oh, and voting in elections, which is simple in most situations, but is more complex in the Unexceptional  States of America.
    I've just - well, last night - watched the Aaron Sorkin movie "The Trial of the Chicago Seven", about a group of eight, initially, seven white and one black (completely unconnected with the protests, incidentally), who were put on trial after the protests outside the 1968 US Democratic Party nomination convention (DNC).
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  • Risk Management: Changes to Globalisation
    Risk management is focused, by its very name, on what could go wrong. There are times, however, when things can go "right", and the risk is: not capitalising on the good that has happened.
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  • Why we should care about . . . India's judicial independence
    The moment we move away from direct (100% participatory) democracy to the more common (and, these days, probably more practicable - although we need far more participatory aspects) representative democracy, the issue of "checks and balances" becomes "a thing", to borrow some modern parlance.
    There are a range of forms of checks and balances, including:
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  • Right wingers
    Right wing MPs don't like right wing extremists being described as "right wing".
    Well, I don't like that those anarchists in the early 20th century who were violent, and
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  • Why we should care about . . . the US Vice-Presidential debates
    To those of us living outside its borders, the United States of America (USA) is a very strange place at times.
    One of the most consistently strange aspects, to me, has been the way it winds up with a President (POTUS, for President of the United States).
    In the rest of the world, where monarchy and similar systems of inheritance of political power have been replaced (see here for a useful list), choosing a leader is basically along the lines of some sort of variation of direct vote.
    Not so the USA.
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  • Management - failure to learn, and a call for business unit diaries
    I'm in the process of coming out of about my sixth “utilisation rate” farce - er, cycle.
    What happens is that some IPOC does some very simplistic thinking, notices that utilisation rate appears to indicate productivity, if productivity is defined in terms of billable hours, conflates their excitement at having found something they that matches their level of understanding with what motivates real human beings, and then starts pushing for measurement and targets on utilisation.
    That's the start. Once reality sets in,
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