Business As A Flow Requires New Management Techniques
Austrian economics provides the design guidelines for the new management techniques required when business is understood as a flow.
Hi, Hunter Hastings here - I'm an economist by education, a marketer in my professional track, a venture capitalist in my current business life, an Individualist in philosophy, and a passionate supporter of entrepreneurship in whatever form I can practice it, support it and advance it.
Austrian economics provides the design guidelines for the new management techniques required when business is understood as a flow.
reneurs can realize their goal to think better, think Austrian by taking a systems thinking approach. We can ditch linearity and hierarchies in favor of distributed networks and webs of causality and create better knowledge – more aligned with the real world — and better mental models.
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