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Life
Enabling Enterprise: An Alternative Approach to Commerce
Volume 1: The Model and Other Critical Knowledge
Raphael L. Vitalo, Ph.D. and Christopher J. Bujak, B.S.M.E.
This first-ever book to evaluate the effects of Capitalism
from economic, social, and evolutionary perspectives also offers
a detailed presentation of an alternative approach to commerce
that is founded on the principles of individual freedom and
property rights, yet it ensures that all commercial endeavors
protect, nurture, and enrich human life and the ecosystem that
supports all life.
Product Details - Print Edition (Perfect Bind)
Paperback: 614 pages; Dimensions 2.25" x 9" x
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Publisher: Lowrey Press, September l, 2022
ISBN: 978-0-9722810-8-9
LCCN: 2021912177
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Book Contents |
Preface |
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Chapter 1. Introduction
to Volumes 1 and 2 |
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Chapter 2. Why
We Need a New Economic Model |
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Section I The
Foundations of Every Commercial Model |
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Chapter
3. Understanding a Commercial Model
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Chapter
4. How a Model's Foundational Premises Shape Its Contents
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Chapter
5. The Life Enabling Model's Premises
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Chapter
6. The Realisticness of the Life Enabling Model's Premises
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Section II The
Strategic Component of the Life Enabling Model |
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Chapter
7. The Life Enabling Model's Expected Strategic Results
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Chapter
8. The Activities That Produce Strategic Success
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Chapter
9. The Resources Critical to Strategic Success
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Section III The Operations
Component of the Life Enabling Model |
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Chapter
10. The Results Operations Must Produce
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Chapter
11. The Activities That Produce Operations' Results
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Chapter
12. The Resources Critical to Operations' Success
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Section IV The Executive
Functions Component of the Life Enabling Model |
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Chapter
13. The Executive Function of Effectiveness
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Chapter
14. The Executive Function of Sufficiency
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Chapter
15. The Executive Function of Synergy
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Section IV Closing |
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Chapter
16. Summary
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Chapter
17. Implications
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Chapter
18. Warning
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Appendices |
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Appendix
A: Is Inequality Problematic: The Naysayers' Perspective
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Appendix
B: A Detailed Look at the Powell Memorandum
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Appendix
C: The Economic Fruits of Political Power
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Appendix
D: Distinguishing Between Knowledge and Information
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Appendix
E: Three Types of Methods for Decision Making/Problem Solving
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Appendix
F: Templates for Knowledge Documents
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Appendix
G: The Meeting Power Scale
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Appendix
H: Peer-to-Peer Assessment of Synergy
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Bibliography |
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Glossary |
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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.
This first-ever book to evaluate the effects of Capitalism from
economic, social, and evolutionary perspectives also offers a detailed
presentation
of an alternative approach to commerce that is founded on the principles
of individual freedom and property rights, yet it ensures that all commercial
endeavors protect, nurture, and enrich human life and the ecosystem that
supports all life.
Capitalism, as a theoretical model of an imaginary world, appears to
be logically sound. Empirical evidence reviewed in this book, however,
makes clear that Capitalism, as a practical economic system, is a sham.
Its dominance 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 its realization.
This book documents the bases for Capitalism’s destructiveness
including its false understanding of human nature and incorrect assumptions
about the commercial context. Capitalism assumes that all people act
egoistically without regard for others, and they do not. It also assumes
that no asymmetries of information or power exist between buyers and
sellers, and they do. Its theorems, drawn from these errors, construct
a system that enables the few to exploit the many. As to human nature,
studies repeated hundreds of times have shown that humankind displays
two different response dispositions toward others. One portion always
acts egoistically as Capitalism posits. Another portion is natively cooperative
and other-regarding. For this latter segment, following Capitalism’s
guidance requires them to behave in ways that contravene their native
inclinations. And, it is the native human dispositions of this second
segment of humankind that evolutionary science credits with enhancing
our species’ ability to survive and evolve. Further, repeated studies
have demonstrated that, when egoists interact with cooperators, they
always seek to exploit them.
The research reviewed in this book also clarifies
the true nature of commerce; the breadth of human necessities, beyond
material needs, that
commerce must serve; 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
guidance for implementing the Life Enabling approach to commerce that
supports the emergence of the individual, the well-being of society as
a whole, and the vitality of the ecosystem that supports all life.
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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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