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May 17, 2021

Transforming Internal Control into Business Enabler

Internal Control is commonly cited as an avoidable cost, a bureaucratic straitjacket that limits agile decision-making, while on the other hand, it’s a fundamental element in the governance of large organizations, listed companies, banks, and financial institutions, arguably mandated by regulators. This mandate essentially supports the argument that Internal Control…

Internal Control

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Transforming Internal Control into Business Enabler
Transforming Internal Control into Business Enabler

Sep 6, 2020

On Vices of Wisdom and Wise Men

So much has been written in honor of wisdom, as a virtue, on its importance, and its indispensable place in our lives that thinking of its antagonisms immediately meets resistance. …

Wisdom

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On Vices of Wisdom and Wise Men
On Vices of Wisdom and Wise Men

Jun 5, 2020

Passionately Free

The greatest gift of modern life is the choices we have at our disposal which our parents and generations before them lacked. Today, we think in choices, act on options, strategize alternatives, and strive for possibilities, as such our whole life circles around choices of lifestyle, education, career, relationships, between…

Freedom

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Passionately Free
Passionately Free

Jun 5, 2020

Rationalizing Rationality

Some time ago, an interesting exchange over the mechanism of rationality led to the idea of retrospective rationalization. This idea, which on one hand, antagonizes the very ground on which rationality stands, on the other hand, is firmly rooted in language. …

Philosophy

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Rationalizing Rationality
Rationalizing Rationality

Jun 5, 2020

A Short Note On Hegelian Dialectics

In Hegel’s dialectical movement, contradictions are necessarily internalized, and there is always a remainder, a leftover from the process of sublation. Therefore contradiction is a simple negation of an object, a necessity of its determination, and the remainder is the negation of negation. Simply put the first negation is a…

Hegel

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A Short Note On Hegelian Dialectic
A Short Note On Hegelian Dialectic

May 20, 2020

A Short Note on Optical Illusions

An optical illusion is described as a deceptive trick which makes us see something else, other than the reality we should see. I think, this description reduces this phenomenon, which exists and is real qua experience, and dismisses it rather naively. …

Psychology

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A Short Note on Optical Illusions
A Short Note on Optical Illusions

Jan 30, 2020

The Unattainable Rational of Homo Economicus and Other Rational Agents

“Homo economicus”, or as more commonly known as a rational man or an economic man, is a central figure in economic theory, and despite its controversial nature it sustained its position in extrapolating commercial behavior. As such, this figure exists as an ideal notion, its does not exist in real…

Rationality

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The Unattainable Rational of Homo Economicus and Other Rational Agents
The Unattainable Rational of Homo Economicus and Other Rational Agents

Dec 25, 2019

Being Operationally Effective

Every strategy is based on the premise of operational effectiveness, without it, strategy does not matter. Michael Porter uses this argument to explain, what is strategy? and he concludes that operational effectiveness is not strategy. …

Operational Efficiency

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Being Operationally Effective
Being Operationally Effective

Nov 1, 2019

Thinking “Cogito, Ergo Sum”

“Cogito, ergo sum; I think, therefore I am… Rene Descartes” Can this be negated? We are thinking beings, we think without deliberate intervention, our attention griped by this phenomenon which exists, but then, is attention in itself not a form of thinking? Attention assumes this temporal abstracted form of one’s…

Philosophy

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Thinking “Cogito, Ergo Sum”
Thinking “Cogito, Ergo Sum”

Oct 23, 2019

Choice-Risk Paradox

A commonly known fact about risk is that it did not occur, yet, and it may never happen at all, and while this property is fundamental to its concept. It’s a necessary misrecognition in this determination, which includes in itself contradictions, fear and hope, mediates into form which manifests itself…

Risk

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Choice-Risk Paradox
Choice-Risk Paradox
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