This is an introductory teaser to a much longer seriers of posts that is still gestating, still under heavy thinkering and development ... the whole series started off as a idea for a simple posting about some reflections on Market Based Management or Charlie Koch's Science of Success, specifically the Challenge Process ... and, of course, the whole topic on the elegance magnificence of markets takes us into the nuances described in the work of Friedman, Sowell, von Mises, Mercatur ... it goes beyond MBM's Vision, Knowledge, Incentives, Diversity and lands us in the world of where things must be EARNED and paid for -- it is the context of who gets to make the decision, who is allowed to bid, what does it take to OWN the rights to make a decision?
Ownership and what it takes to be the one in control, the one making a decision is really intensely powerful stuff to think about ... it is not the cream puff namby-pamby world of democracy and fairness, it is the REAL world of who paid the price, who won the war, who owns the turf and who gets to decide [for now].
