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Gary Hamel: Capitalism is Dead. Long Live Capitalism. - Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 - WSJ

Gary Hamel: Capitalism is Dead. Long Live Capitalism. - Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 - WSJ Capitalism is not the issue or the problem, and cannot be a goal either. It is freedom and what it is done with it. Acquiring power by growing increasingly rich and control, by using that power to make governments and even the world to move in 'your' direction, is not a virtue or a demise of freedom, as the collectivist world wants us to believe, but of men and women misguided by their own thirst for power and control, provided precisely by the weak, or evil politicians who are ready to sell their souls to the best bidder. The issue is not how much love or hate there is for or towards capital or capitalism, but for power control.

Chile's Rescue Formula: '75% Science, 25% Miracle' - WSJ.com

Chile's Rescue Formula: '75% Science, 25% Miracle' - WSJ.com 100% a miracle! Faith was the key factor, the presence of God. An incredulous world was able to watch by the billions, how very simple people kept going by simple and pure faith. Science was a key factor of course, and so was engineering, but they could only be useful in the presence of love for humanity and the willing to help and be there in the moments that count. Important is to observe that saving these miners was placed at the front of every other consideration of pride and it was the appeal to engineering knowledge which was determinant. This is a triumph 100% of faith, and yes, it is a miracle, 100% as well, specially in a world where human dignity is so ill treated and scarce.