(Un)Fortunate Necessity of War
War is a necessary emergency of any system that is not in equilibrium. Only dead systems are in equilibrium. Continue Reading
Brandlife
Marketing, PR and Integrated Reporting
Terminology is important. Clarifying the concepts behind important terms has always been a passion of mine. So many conceptual blunders can be found in the so-called social sciences in particular, both in the past and today, and management and communications… Continue Reading
Branding as integration vehicle for IR
Integrated reporting is based on two premises: That organisations behave like living beings (biological premise). That living beings exist holistically (holistic premise). Taken together, these two premises limit the possibilities of organisational philosophy, explanation, design, governance, control, risk management, and… Continue Reading
Does America First lead to liberal society?
This post I originally wrote in January 2017, after the inaugural speech of Donald Trump. It was not about Donald Trump, and it still is not about him. I cannot say much about him since I know him only from… Continue Reading
The Price of the Value
There is no big deal to know that value cannot be quantified while the price, on the other hand, cannot be un-quantified. That the value of any item being exchanged among humans can not be defined objectively was so nicely… Continue Reading
The Price of the Light
A close friend of mine and a brother, Peter, recently came up with peculiarity of Slovenian language that differentiates light as a source of light and light as a product of that source. »Luč« in Slovenian denotes the source only… Continue Reading
Why there is not much we can really understand?
Robert Nozick famous second part of his first chapter Metaphysics in his Philosophical Explanations (1981) reads: “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing”. Though Nozick Ethics and Political philosophy are very powerful and compelling today, his Metaphysics stumbles due to times when… Continue Reading
Wise or clever
A couple of years ago I sat with a good friend in a larger but good company. While enjoying some partly enjoyable catering (yes, it is possible to enjoy something that is not enjoyable!) he uttered: “Andrej, you are too… Continue Reading
Branding as holistic management of life
First thesis: As already explained under all “meme” tags and especially in this post, memes form THE unique human environment that follows the same replication and evolution principles as genes within genetic evolution. That memes replicate in more Lamarckian (inheritance of… Continue Reading
Personal branding
Concept of personal branding is so fashionable. With the rise of social media, the hype around it became even more abundant. Everyone wants to be noticed, liked, repeated, and so on. Forget corporate brands; personal brands in the form of… Continue Reading