Comments on: Death from below http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/ Same old blog, brand new place Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:29:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: JTH http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/comment-page-1/#comment-2519 JTH Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:02:19 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/#comment-2519 Mike Also of note, comment (on the show) that after a sortie or two you stopped making friends, you lost so many. But that may be "off topic" I'm just too young to know (right Doc?) JTH Mike
Also of note, comment (on the show) that after a sortie or two you stopped making friends, you lost so many.

But that may be “off topic”
I’m just too young to know (right Doc?)

JTH

]]> By: Mike Warot http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/comment-page-1/#comment-2492 Mike Warot Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:15:21 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/#comment-2492 JTH, that's an interesting point. Those guys were battle tested, and they have to have worked well in leadership positions on teams literally risking everything on a regular basis. It's no wonder they carried this powerful lesson home with them to go on to repeat the structure for the rest of their work lives. Thanks for the new perspective. --Mike-- JTH, that’s an interesting point. Those guys were battle tested, and they have to have worked well in leadership positions on teams literally risking everything on a regular basis. It’s no wonder they carried this powerful lesson home with them to go on to repeat the structure for the rest of their work lives.

Thanks for the new perspective.

–Mike–

]]> By: JTH http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/comment-page-1/#comment-2480 JTH Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:58:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/#comment-2480 War A bit "off topic" ... or maybe not I read the piece last night while watching Ken Burns "War" on PBS Besides being a powerful re-creation of the times and events of WWII, it may give insight to some mindsets that are not of my generation. In particular, I read the piece while "War" was covering the 8th Air Force Schwinefert (sp?) raids where the odds of coming home were not good. Matter of fact, airmen rarely made it to 15 sorties, you were dead by 14. Those folks (survivors) are well retired now, but did the attitude(s) carry down? As for Julian's comment on Chinese restaurants ... The west operates on "contract law", the east operates on "relationships". War
A bit “off topic” … or maybe not
I read the piece last night while watching Ken Burns “War” on PBS
Besides being a powerful re-creation of the times and events of WWII, it may give insight to some mindsets that are not of my generation.

In particular, I read the piece while “War” was covering the 8th Air Force Schwinefert (sp?) raids where the odds of coming home were not good.
Matter of fact, airmen rarely made it to 15 sorties, you were dead by 14.

Those folks (survivors) are well retired now, but did the attitude(s) carry down?

As for Julian’s comment on Chinese restaurants …
The west operates on “contract law”, the east operates on “relationships”.

]]> By: Julian Bond http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/comment-page-1/#comment-2461 Julian Bond Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:43:14 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/#comment-2461 Here's one to ponder. There are plenty of heavily branded US Multinationals selling a standardised commodity worldwide. eg Starbucks, McDonalds, CocaCola. There's a Chinese restaurant in every town in every country but they're all different, they're not branded and they're all independent. One is the result of a top down, military style organisation that bombs the locals with their product. The other is a bottom up ant hill, driven by individual entrepreneurs that exploit market niches. There's some comparison in there somewhere with the Vietnam war. Here’s one to ponder.

There are plenty of heavily branded US Multinationals selling a standardised commodity worldwide. eg Starbucks, McDonalds, CocaCola. There’s a Chinese restaurant in every town in every country but they’re all different, they’re not branded and they’re all independent. One is the result of a top down, military style organisation that bombs the locals with their product. The other is a bottom up ant hill, driven by individual entrepreneurs that exploit market niches.

There’s some comparison in there somewhere with the Vietnam war.

]]> By: Jackie Danicki » why I choke on Apple http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/comment-page-1/#comment-2450 Jackie Danicki » why I choke on Apple Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:24:43 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/#comment-2450 [...] Doc (will add links when home; blogging from phone, which makes it a pain) Posted by Jackie Danicki [...] [...] Doc (will add links when home; blogging from phone, which makes it a pain) Posted by Jackie Danicki [...]

]]> By: Dave Winer http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/comment-page-1/#comment-2439 Dave Winer Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:20:12 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/24/death-from-below/#comment-2439 A proposal for the corporate death penalty: http://tinyurl.com/39nlus A proposal for the corporate death penalty: http://tinyurl.com/39nlus

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