Joshua Kennon » executive compensation http://www.joshuakennon.com Thoughts on Business, Politics, and Life from a Private Investor Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:51:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mental Model: Social Loafing http://www.joshuakennon.com/mental-model-social-loafing/ http://www.joshuakennon.com/mental-model-social-loafing/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:38:12 +0000 Joshua Kennon http://www.joshuakennon.com/?p=4493

Mental Model: Social Loafing

If you were starting a project or business, common sense would tell you that you could produce 5x as much output if there were five people working on your goals than if there were just one person.  If you are running a counseling program, ten counselors should be able to do 10x the work as [...]

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How One of My Family Members Used Shares of U.S. Bancorp to Build Substantial Wealth

A member of my close family has been using a technique to build substantial wealth that doesn’t require a high income or any specialized knowledge, extra work, or effort.  I was so impressed by the way he implemented this program, I thought I would share it with my other family and friends (as well as [...]

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Why Income Inequality Will Always Exist as Part of the Post-Industrial Revolution Global Economy

First: Before we begin, the education system in the United States over the past few decades has done such a poor job teaching basic logic that by virtue of the headline alone, it is statistically likely that you have already made a decision about whether or not this short essay on pay inequality is “good” [...]

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