Doing More with Less by Piasecki, Bruce -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Foreword

Gaining Ground

Acknowledgments Competition and the Tangle of Social Needs

Another Way to Wealth A Faith in Our Future A Practice in Joy and Satisfaction The Magic of Principles This Is the You Century Our Homage to Benjamin Franklin Coda

Part I: Competition and the Tangle of Social Needs

Chapter 1: In the Company of Knuckleheads

What We Forget in Excess A Gift Available to Youth Achieving Results Why Should We Dig Deeper Than “Good to Great“? In the Company of Knuckleheads The Supernormal Knucklehead Extreme Sports, Extreme Business Attitudes From Good to Great to Extreme Our Prime Example Walking Home to Wealth

Chapter 2: Scarcity and Creativity

A Case in Point Well Beyond the Mean Social Capital Is Scarce and Priceless A Declaration of Interdependence Finding Loyalty Losing Ground The Purpose of Money

Part II: Unstoppable Frugality

Chapter 3: The Art of Competitive Frugality

Money and Rules and the Health of People The Near Future Is Near Rules Regarding the Near Future The Path Forward Is Together How These New Rules Constitute Higher Facts The Higher Facts of Health Care Who Runs the World, If Not Nation-States? If Thought Ran This Zoo A Zookeeper’s Retrospect

Chapter 4: Doing More with Less

Fast-Forward A Reflection upon Reflection Reasons on Top of Reflections A Little Bird Called Fate A Stranger in Paradise The Financial Page on Start-Ups When Money Makes Money Beyond the Founder Syndrome A Life Story Telling the Truth A Man Holding Balloons Today’s More Dangerous World Relating Different Lives War and Want, Freedom and Peace Uprisings Today and Tomorrow The Value in Stoic Restraint Coda

Part III: Near the Future

Chapter 5: An Idler in the City

Looking Back—and Looking Ahead Surprise, Surprise: Solutions in Competitive Frugality Megacompanies Sculpting Megacities Corporate Culture and Megacities The Truth about Global Corporations Capitalism Today and Tomorrow The Crossroads to Motivated Thinking So Human an Animal Going Back to the School of Social Leadership Coda Today, Tomorrow, Megacities Summary in Terms of Social Response Capitalism New Grounds for Hope

Chapter 6: Another Day Will Tell

The Element of Surprise Coming Home with Ben Franklin A Final Hint

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