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Promethean Action author. American System and history, physical economy, science. The background you need to lead.
Saint Louis, Missouri starshipmike.substack.com Joined December 2023
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In response to the people who keep asking why China isn't our enemy, (despite plenty of objectionable behavior on their part) read this and the previous Part 18. Get the Big PIcture.

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Michael James Carr Verified account @StarshipMike Sep 1
No. It's not politics as usual. It's war. Discover why the British Empire cannot tolerate President Trump and his plans. American or foreigner, you must take the time to understand this conflict. Here is the gist of it. x.com/i/article/2093…
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We must build a knowledgeable citizenry who actively work on building a better future for all, instead of swinging from outrage to outrage according to the PSYOP of the day. x.com/StarshipMike/s…
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Failing to have solved every problem in 21 months, the same protest vote that went to Trump as the "outsider" in 2024, was flipped against the Republican slates in 2026. x.com/i/article/2119…
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Underneath the stupidity of "Management Theory" are the assumptions of no or slow change, and monetarism, the idea that everything and every quality can be measured in money. Physical reality is not measured in money. See starshipmike.substack.com/p/why-promethe… and starshipmike.substack.com/p/why-promethe…
starshipmike.substack.com Why Promethean Action Is a Step Ahead (Part 3) Physical Economy, Not Monetarism
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Marc Andreessen revealed how Harvard Business School was built on a broken 1941 theory, and how it's now collapsing...

Andreessen co-founded Netscape in 1994 and a16z in 2009.

He has sat on Meta's board since 2008.

He has spent 30 years backing founders and watching managerial CEOs lose to them.

The pattern traces back to one book: James Burnham's The Machiavellians (1941).

Burnham argued every great company had been founder-run.

Henry Ford ran Ford. Bob Noyce ran Intel.

Today, Elon Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink.

Then, he said, something broke.

Between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new philosophy replaced the founder. It was called managerialism.

The professional manager would now hold a portable skill, usable across any business.

The consequences were:

- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Business School
- Management as a universal skill
- The 1970s conglomerate

"That assumes the managers are going to do a good job," Andreessen says.

For 30 years, they haven't.

Managers can run something static, he says. Soup is soup. A bank is a bank. A car is a car.

But when the industry changes, the manager freezes.

Look at SpaceX.

"Imagine being a professionally trained manager, trained at a top management school, working for a rocket launch company, competing with SpaceX."

Then Elon's rockets started landing on their butt.

"Your management skills ... what good are they at that point?"

Andreessen's conclusion:

"You're much more likely to build something important in the 21st century if you start with the founder and train them on management."
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