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Life Enabling Enterprise: An Economic System for the Good of Humankind
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Raphael L. Vitalo, Ph.D., Christopher J. Bujak, B.S.M.E. |
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Our economic system is destroying our society and our species ...
We
live in a society that accepts an economic system in which lies used to promote
sales are legitimized by its courts as just an expression of the “puffery” capitalist
enterprises use to get buy behaviors and not chargeable as fraud; products
are designed to sell profitably, not benefit their recipients; packaging is
designed to hide increases in price, not inform buyers; producers who pollute and destroy
our ecosystem declare it is not their concern and we accept it; profits are
generated from the sale of offerings that are harmful to humankind yet counted
in our measures of economic growth and well-being; our right to redress for harm done to us
is legally restricted so as not to discourage future commerce; and producers
use the profits they extract from us to coop our political representatives and
governance so they may continue their plunder undeterred.
In response to all of this and more, we are told there is no better alternative
economic system. Moreover, we are told that we can always choose not to buy.
Thus, we have nothing to complain about because every transaction we undertake
is, by our acceptance, fair and freely made.
None of this is necessary or valid. All of it is predicated on the false assumptions
of a sham economic system that serves the few. Its only legitimacy is as a
method of control and exploitation of the many. Worse, the human environment
it engenders denies the necessities of life that science has made clear are
essential for human survival and humankind’s continuance as a specie.
This book reveals why and how this is happening, why it is not necessary,
and offers a valid alternative approach to commerce that elevates human sociality,
fosters personal emergence, and nourishes the ecosystem that supports all life.
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Product Details - Print Edition (Perfect Bind)
Paperback: 614 pages; Dimensions 2.25" x 9" x
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Publisher: Lowrey Press
ISBN: 978-0-9722810-5-8
LCCN: 2023901129
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Table of Contents
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Preface
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Excerpt
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Chapter 1. Introduction |
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Chapter 2. Why
We Need a New Economic Model
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13
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Section I The
Foundations of Every Commercial Model
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57
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Chapter
3. Understanding a Commercial Model
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59
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Chapter
4. How a Model's Foundational Premises Shape Its Contents
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83
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Chapter
5. The Life Enabling Model's Premises
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107
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Chapter
6. What Science Tells Us About Human Nature
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135
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Section II The
Strategic Component of the Life Enabling Model
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187
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Chapter
7. The Life Enabling Model's Expected Strategic Results
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189
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Chapter
8. The Activities That Produce Strategic Success
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219
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Chapter
9. The Resources Critical to Strategic Success
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239
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Section III The Operations
Component of the Life Enabling Model
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283
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Chapter
10. The Results Operations Must Produce
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285
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Chapter
11. The Activities That Produce Operations' Results
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297
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Chapter
12. The Resources Critical to Operations' Success
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353
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Section IV The Executive
Functions Component of the Life Enabling Model
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363
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Chapter
13. The Executive Function of Effectiveness
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365
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Chapter
14. The Executive Function of Sufficiency
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387
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Chapter
15. The Executive Function of Synergy
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427
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Section IV Closing
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433
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Chapter
16. Summary
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435
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Chapter
17. Implications
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461
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Chapter
18. Warning
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477
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Appendices
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Appendix
A: Is Inequality Problematic: The Naysayers' Perspective
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485
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Appendix
B: A Detailed Look at the Powell Memorandum
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493
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Appendix
C: The Economic Fruits of Political Power
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497
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Appendix
D: Distinguishing Between Knowledge and Information
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505
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Appendix
E: Three Types of Methods for Decision Making/Problem Solving
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511
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Appendix
F: Templates for Knowledge Documents
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513
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Appendix
G: The Meeting Power Scale
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515
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Appendix
H: Peer-to-Peer Assessment of Synergy
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521
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Bibliography
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Glossary
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557
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Index
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Authors
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What Is This Book About?
The issue with Capitalism is more than economics. It is about the survival
of humankind. Capitalism, as a theoretical model of an imaginary world,
appears to be logically sound. The empirical evidence reviewed in this
book makes clear, however, that, as a practical economic system, Capitalism
is a sham. Its dominance as the world's essential economic system has
undermined our understanding of ourselves as a species; commerce as our
common means for enabling each other's survival, growth, and fulfillment;
and our notion of what constitutes appropriate conduct within a society
and across societies internationally. It falsely pits individual emergence
against social well-being when in fact each requires the other for realization.
The research reviewed in this book also clarifies the true nature of
commerce; the breadth of human necessities, beyond material needs, that
commerce must provide; Capitalism's real utility as a "social
control system"; and the potential consequences for evolved humankind
of Capitalism's universal promulgation. It also provides detailed practical
guidance for conducting commerce in a manner that ensures that all commercial
endeavors protect, nurture, and enrich human
life and the ecosystem that supports all life. This guidance details
how one implements the Strategic, Operations,
and Executive functions
that steer the implementation of a Life Enabling enterprise. In each
case, the book provides examples of how such an enterprise differs
in its conduct from one implementing Capitalism.
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About the Authors
Raphael L. Vitalo received his doctorate in clinical psychology from
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has authored 50 professional
articles, technical reports, and chapters in the areas of psychology,
education, business management and commerce, information systems, and
artificial intelligence.
Dr. Vitalo worked in community mental health during the first segment of his
50-year career as a therapist, researcher, and clinical director of three mental
health centers. Under his clinical leadership, each center dramatically improved
in its delivery of care. For example, in the second of those centers, his staff
improved the success of their treatment outcomes by 31% (from 70% to 92% of clients
reported benefit from care), reduced dropouts from treatment by more than 50%,
expanded the number of people served with the same level of staff by 20%, and
produced a per-unit cost of care that was 56% below the national average. In
the next phase of his career, Dr. Vitalo worked as a business consultant. He
has designed, managed, and implemented more than 400 projects serving public
and private sector organizations in the areas of strategic planning, organizational
effectiveness, performance management, workforce productivity, business process
reengineering, risk management, applications of the Quality and Lean Enterprise
models, knowledge engineering, information systems design and development, and
expert systems design and development. He is currently the president of Vital
Enterprises.
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Christopher J. Bujak is a managing partner of Continual
Impact, a consulting group providing consulting and training in continuous
improvement. Chris is a mechanical engineer by formal training with extensive
postgraduate training and experience in the application of Lean Manufacturing
and Six Sigma methodologies and tools. As global director of continuous
improvement (CI) for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Chris was one
of the principle developers of an integrated CI model that included Lean
Enterprise, Six Sigma™, and other critical enabling elements. This
global initiative yielded $13 million (2021 current U.S. dollars) in
savings during its first year of implementation, $21.1 million in its
second year, and over $68 million in its third year. His work with Continual
Impact has reached some 200 organizations, with more than 4,000 people
trained and engaged in continuous improvements efforts. His recent focus
has been on public health organizations across the U.S.
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