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Beyond the Days of the Giants
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Beyond the Days of the Giants

by Paul D. Fisher
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
181 pages
5h 12m
English
Productivity Press
Content preview from Beyond the Days of the Giants
6 ◾  Beyond the Days of the Giants
was. And that loss happened at the edge of the same cliff over which the
Minders would inevitably tumble.
The Minders Follow the Finders
For our Minders, the sky was still the limit. For the time being, they had
enough cheap, generally skilled labor to create value without worrying too
much about the efficiency of the processes that intervened between labor
inputs and client outputs. We had paper, spreadsheets, good ideas, and
cheap labor. We could still solve a lot of the world’s ills despite the dwin-
dling numbers of Finders. But then two important things happened.
Enron and WorldCom
The corporate malfeasance laid bare during the days of Enron and
WorldCom caused a sudden, massive resource reallocation via the ...
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ISBN: 9781482203578