Alexander M. WegnerDec 9, 20153 minThe Specter of ProgressTHROUGHOUT MOST OF THE SHORT SPAN OF HUMAN EXISTENCE, life was akin to an arduous struggle. Good health and worldly comforts alike were r...
Alexander M. WegnerOct 5, 20153 minDawn of the Post-Human Age BOTH OBJECTIVELY AND SUBJECTIVELY, WE LIVE IN UNPARALLELED TIMES. For millennia, the world of man was one of mystery, more subject than o...
Alexander M. WegnerJun 18, 20153 minDon't Let Competitors Set Your BenchmarkIN BUSINESS, FORESIGHT TENDS TO BE OF A QUARTERLY NATURE. Though corporate culture and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have become ...
Alexander M. WegnerApr 12, 20154 minPhilosophy Won't Save Us; "Interstellar" MayMAN APPEARS TO BE A FORWARD-LOOKING CREATURE, perhaps because an inevitably complex and always ambiguous past tends to evade understandin...
Alexander M. WegnerApr 11, 20152 minRe-Engineering Leadership ACROSS SECTORS AND ORGANIZATIONS leaders are commonly perceived to be in control through the power with which their status endows them. D...
Alexander M. WegnerNov 11, 20144 minCreativity and the Future of Organizations TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS, MOST NOTABLY IN FORM OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB, has given rise to entirely new markets, products and services. Firms ...
Alexander M. WegnerOct 9, 20143 minEffective Public Relations Must Be AuthenticORGANIZATIONS ACROSS SECTORS TEND TO CONSULT COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSIONALS, in order to effectively convey their objectives and ongoing de...
Alexander M. WegnerSep 13, 20142 minTomorrow's Businesses Need IntrapreneursFIRMS ACROSS SILICON VALLEY TAKE PRIDE IN THEIR CULTURE, one that is allegedly characterized by the authority of ideas rather than the id...
Alexander M. WegnerAug 30, 20144 minFanaticism, Lethargy, and a Politics of HopeOUR WOLRD RESEMBLES A BOWL OF PORRIDGE; it lacks contrast, thus is deprived of nuance, and prone to numb the minds of its observers throu...
Alexander M. WegnerAug 23, 20145 minMarket Philosophy and NebuchadnezzarWHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? Who ought to philosophize? What does philosophizing entail? Why has philosophy decayed? So I wondered, as I sipped a ...
Alexander M. WegnerAug 9, 20146 minSensation, Order, ChangeMAN CANNOT BE SOLITARY; in order for him to be, he must–or cannot not–contextualize himself. Indeed, what is the significance of any ‘I’ ...
Alexander M. WegnerAug 1, 20146 minHigher Education: Illiberal ArtsTHE SUPPOSEDLY PREMIER U.S. INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION at which I studied over the course of four years, tends–on the basis my exper...
Alexander M. WegnerJul 26, 20145 minIsrael and Palestine: Toxic Idealism, Elusive Rationality THE MURDERS OF NAFTALI FRAENKEL (AGED 16), GILAD SHAER (AGED 16), AND EYAL YIFRAH (AGED 19), all of whom were young Israeli citizens, not...
Alexander M. WegnerJul 19, 20144 minCompanionship in an Age of StrangersAMID THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, both distance and time are clothed in attire of relativity. Communications and transport technology have v...
Alexander M. WegnerJul 12, 20145 minTime and Tradition TIME, LIKE DISTANCE, HAS COME TO BE RELATIVE, as human organization has turned ever more rigid. Whereas the world within which man was pr...
Alexander M. WegnerJul 5, 20145 minOn the Perils of Cosmopolitanism EXTENSIVE FLOWS – OF INFORMATION, RESOURCES, AND PEOPLE – characterize the late twentieth, and what little we have witnessed of the twent...
Alexander M. WegnerJun 28, 20144 minIn Defense of Corporate Irresponsibility PARTICULARLY SINCE THE 2007- FINANCIAL CRISIS, banks, hedge funds, insurance firms and corporations at large have become objects of publi...
Alexander M. WegnerJun 21, 20144 minFreedom, Liberties, and Education MAN TENDS TO PERCEIVE HIMSELF AS FREE, that is, as autonomous. Within the perimeters of law an social conventions, he perceives himself a...
Alexander M. WegnerJun 13, 20144 minExistence, Identity, and Being THE WORLD WITHIN WHICH WE ARE, has come to be understood as a cosmos of human interaction, despite the allegedly obvious fact that man is...
