The current proclivity to discuss abstract Metabusiness instead of real businesses has it origins in our schools, media, and politics.

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Considering their tendencies to retain and promote people of marginal competence, as well as the extent of their centralized power—not to mention their frequent fondness for nonsensical rules and policies, and their obliviousness to good ideas and innovations while locked in internal "politics"—it seems nothing short of astonishing that today’s corporations, with which we spend so much time in direct, personal interaction, have managed to avoid being major targets of the public’s exasperation with bureaucracy.

If most of us who work for a living are only too familiar with the inefficiencies of corporate life, why is it that we slide into speaking about ever-efficient Metabusiness when we discuss business issues in the context of social policy?

(c) COPYRIGHT 1998 ROBERT WINTER.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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	We're certainly not taught about corporate bureaucracy in our school civics classes.
	Today's media can't seem to avoid extremes of hostility, neglect, or kissing up to business.
	Politicians appear almost constitutionally incapable of differentiating between business and Metabusiness.