Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of Ignoring Obscure Media

Wagner's MBA Law of Ignoring Obscure Media (was Wagner's MBA Law of MSNBC): It does not matter enough to worry about, so focus on larger media outlets, first, before paying attention to broadcasts that are primarily watched by pets, etc. MSNBC's news broadcast outrages dozens of people everyday; it is like the local middle school's production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma... it doesn't matter how bad it is; the damage to the performing arts is minimal, because the audience is so small.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of Polar Bear Statistical Reasoning

Wagner's MBA Law of Polar Bear Statistical Reasoning: The polar bears realize they are probably experiencing local weather patterns, because at polar bear school they learned about units of analysis in statistics class, so they would not assume that a local phenomenon could be generalized to the entire globe.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of Marxism

Wagner's MBA Law of Marxism: Marxism is like an opera about why the inequity found in Capitalism is more efficient; some people take the opera seriously and demand Socialism, while other people just appreciate the impracticality of the underlying plot, and go buy something nice on credit.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of Justin Bieber News

Wagner's MBA Law of Justin Bieber News: There is nothing about Justin Bieber that I needed, need, or will need to know. Please make it stop. Just say NO to Justin Bieber publicity stunts in 2014.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of the Cost of Education

Wagner's MBA Law of the Cost of Education: Education is a better investment than ignorance; A tree planted in the mind grows for many years and bears much fruit.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Wagner's MBA Laws of Against Racist Thinking

Wagner's MBA Laws of Against Racist Thinking: 1. Skin color (or any other physical feature) is often a meaningless way to group individuals; 2. Opinions formed by averaging individuals in a group often do not apply to any single individual in the group; 3. Opinions formed based on one individual often do not apply to a group; 4. Racists often appear to be ignorant, because racist thinking produces false conclusions; 5. Friends don't let friends think like racists!

Wagner's MBA Law of Racist Thinking

Wagner's MBA Law of Racist Thinking: Racist thinking is an illogical method of forming opinions about people that is taught, learned, and assures false conclusions; it is based on the Ecological Fallacy (e.g., individuals are stereotyped to behave a certain way because they have a specific skin color) and the Exception Fallacy (e.g., groups of individuals are stereotyped because the behavior of an individual with the same skin color).

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of NFL Football Championship Games

Wagner's MBA Law of NFL Football Championship Games: The final score is the same whether you watch the game or not.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of Worrying About Other People

Wagner's MBA Law of Worrying About Other People: Don't worry any more about people than they are willing to worry about themselves; you can't repair their lives for them, as the locus of control is distal to you and proximate to them. For example, you can be the coach while they are the player.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of NOT Landing at the Wrong Airport: People sometimes land at the wrong, but airports usually have different names, are at different map coordinates, and just ask some know-it-all passengers on the Southwest Airlines plane, if you aren't certain. :-p

Wagner's MBA Law of Enacting Positive Change in Groups

Wagner's MBA Law of Enacting Positive Change in Groups: SEE the change; BE the change; MAKE the change!

Wagner's MBA Law of American Philosophy

Wagner's MBA Law of American Philosophy: America is more of an idea without borders than a country per se -- America is a general framework for freedom in any country with the details being "in progress" -- Tyrants Beware!

Friday, January 10, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of Uncommon Sense

Wagner's MBA Law of Uncommon Sense: Common Sense as it is frequently known would be more appropriately named _Uncommon Sense_ to indicate its scarcity and high value.

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of Carpet Cleaning

Wagner's MBA Law of Carpet Cleaning: Remember that you are only cleaning the top of the carpet and don't get the carpet too wet, because you don't want to bring up all the "sins of the past" that are down deep in the carpet.

Wagner's MBA Law of Buffet Peel and Eat Shrimp

Wagner's MBA Law of Buffet Peel and Eat Shrimp: Peel and Eat Shrimp in a Buffet are a messy waste of time and I'm glad that we don't serve Pork, Beef, and Chicken that way!