Wagner's MBA General Law of Ignorance

Wagner's General MBA Law of Ignorance: The Stronger the Ignorance, the Greater the Skill and Patience Required to Defeat It... Example: Sexism. Consider the Film Mrs Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful. The story of the late Grandmaster of Judo, Keiko Fukuda, the first and only woman to attain the 10th degree black belt in the history of Judo.

Wagner's MBA Law of Dealing with Ignorant Groups of People

Wagner's MBA Law of Dealing with Ignorant Groups of People: Ignorant Groups are led by Ignorant Leaders (without exception) and Group Ignorance is the most destructive power in the known Universe. The ignorance of the group leaders is magnified by the power of group processes exponentially and ad infinitum, until ignorance explodes in all directions and in right angles from the point of ignorance, becoming the most destructive power in the known Universe. Ignorance at this astronomically-sized level must be handled with that classic Russian defense strategy: retreat to the Ural Mountains and pray for Winter (that is, handle the ignorance of the individual group members one by one, when the power of the presenting ignorance has been diffused in another group context. Or wait until the group leaders quit or are overthrone in a dramatic coup befitting a TV mini-series. See Wagner's Law of Dealing with Ignorant People.) Hence, if you want destroy beauty, truth, or justice, etc., entrust them to the hands of ignorant leaders of a group.

Wagner's MBA Law of Dealing with Ignorant People

Wagner's MBA Law of Dealing with Ignorant People: Sometimes you just have to give people the space to be ignorant, and help them anyway... hoping that some of the most aggressive ignorance will subside with time.

Wagner's MBA Law of Ethnic Politics

Wagner's MBA Law of Ethnic Politics: ELECTIONS ONLY HAVE A THIN VENEER OF FAIRNESS TO ETHNIC MINORITY CANDIDATES; Majority voters are at least 10 times more likely to vote for an equivalent candidate of their own ethnicity, citing familiarity and favorability, so an ethnic minority candidate must generate at least 10 times the amount of donations for advertising (from a much smaller group) and free publicity from news media to convince majority voters of their familiarity and favorability, which is a near impossibility! OK, perhaps it should say only "_5 times more likely to vote for candidate of their own ethnicity_"...

Wagner's MBA Law of Being a Super Hero like Superman

Wagner's MBA Law of Being a Super Hero like Superman: Other than using your powers for good and not for evil, the biggest challenges for you super heroes out there is to walk among average humans like me, not hurt them with your superpowers, and act normal.

Wagner's MBA Law of Hashtag Activism

Wagner's MBA Law of Hashtag Activism: Hashtag Activism (e.g., ‪#‎BringBackOurGirls‬) is a peaceful publicity tactic that countervails terrorism, a violent publicity tactic, and helps heal society by acknowledging and relieving the fear so coveted by the terrorists... plus it gives the terrorists something to read while they are being held in custody awaiting trial.

Wagner's MBA Law of Being a Missionary between Cultures

Wagner's MBA Law of Being a Missionary between Cultures: Just because the natives "cook you" and "eat you" doesn't mean that the message is wrong; instead, the natives may not like the message or they are really hungry.

Wagner's MBA Law of Hyphenating Names

Wagner's MBA Law of Hyphenating Names: If you must do this, it would be better to use the "+", rather than the "-", because you are adding names and families, and not subtracting strings, variables, names, or families. For example, Leviticus Smith+Jones, rather than Leviticus Smith-Jones, makes much more sense to the programmer inside my brain.

Wagner's MBA Law of Milking Mice

Wagner's MBA Law of Milking Mice: Don't try to tell your Grandmother how to milk mice! This is an old expression of my Grandmother Hise (i.e., her invention) that my Mother still says. It basically means to shut up, listen, and show respect to your elders, instead of lecturing them about things on which they are already experts, such as saving money or making the best of an unfavorable situation, etc.

Wagner's MBA Law of Denying Global Climate Change and Other Weather Forecasts

Wagner's MBA Law of Denying Global Climate Change and Other Weather Forecasts: There are too many variables involved over time. As soon as you can reliably predict the weather consistently for a single city and "micro-climate" (i.e., statistically beat a coin toss at 50/50) in a 7-day or greater forecast, then let's talk about 7-week, 7-year, 70-year, or forever "global climate" change forecasts.

Wagner's MBA Law of Dieting to Improve Your Self-Esteem

Wagner's MBA Law of Dieting to Improve Your Self-Esteem: The first step in dieting is to get rid of anyone from your life who is so negative as to make their affection/relationship conditional upon your current weight or supposed need to lose weight. This person should be a future Mr. ex- or Miss ex- person in your life. That is the fastest way to lose over 100+ unwanted pounds. And your self-esteem will improve!

Wagner's MBA Laws of Statistical Data Analysis

Wagner's MBA Laws of Statistical Data Analysis: 1. Life is multivariate, death is univariate, and bivariate analysis may be applicable to other relationships between two variables, depending on the strength of the argument and under special circumstances; 2. Beware of Greek letters and symbols bearing gifts, especially in bivariate relationships (see Wagner's Law #1)