249 Quotes by James Surowiecki

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.

The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.