Archive for 15 March 2007
The Long Tail: Extreme Dining Edition
| Peter Klein |
The great thing about the long tail is that every taste, no matter how idiosyncratic, can be accommodated. Literally. Thanks to the web, no one need do without alligator, antelope, bison/buffalo, caribou/reindeer, elk, frog, kangaroo, kobe beef, lamb, llama, rabbit, rattlesnake, snapping turtle, venison, wild boar, yak, duck, goose, guinea fowl, ostrich, pheasant, quail, squab, or wild turkey. All are available from exoticmeats.com. Next best thing to the Gourmet Club! (HT: Jeff Tucker)
Reminds me of one of my favorite billboards:
New JC Spender Essay
| Nicolai Foss |
JC Spender is one of my favorite management thinkers. I may disagree with him, but he is usually challenging and very often profound (in contrast to some other management thinkers who have been discussed here at O&M). And he writes extremely well. JC has a new essay coming out in Journal of Management Inquiry, “Management as a Regulated Profession.” (It can also be downloaded from JC’s site). Much of the content of the paper is a discussion and diagnosis of the theory-practice gap, including pointing out that this discussion has been going for a very long time: “Redlich (1957) tells of the 19th-century German steel town that, its business failing, pressed the local business school principal to take charge. The business failed anyway, and he was put in jail — where he died — to ponder the gap between rigor and relevance. Deans beware!” (more…)
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