--- title: Tim McCarthy & BGF | Blog | Tim McCarthy (32) description: This site is solely intended to share my learning in business and engaged philanthropy with like-minded people. Ideally, I will continue to build up my audience through readership and speaking gigs but since I've been writing and speaking for 30 years now, my real intention is just to share my journey. 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He was an early observer of such widely-accepted management concepts as MBOs (management by objective), knowledge workers, outsourcing (“do what you do best and outsource the rest”) and planned obsolescence (he termed “planned abandonment). 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And yet… I hope we’d agree that if people started staging car crashes on the side of the road to get attention, we’d be outraged."* [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/amplify-possibility-by-seth-godin) [![](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/hubfs/Imported%20images/chapman-and-clapton.jpg) ](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/give-me-one-reason-by-tracy-chapman-featuring-eric-clapton) ## [Give Me One Reason by Tracy Chapman featuring Eric Clapton](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/give-me-one-reason-by-tracy-chapman-featuring-eric-clapton) ** Dec 31, 2020 10:16:51 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites) [** 0 Comments](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/give-me-one-reason-by-tracy-chapman-featuring-eric-clapton#comments-listing) [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/give-me-one-reason-by-tracy-chapman-featuring-eric-clapton) [![](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/hubfs/Imported%20images/articles-2009-11-Drucker-class-pan_1013.jpg) ](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/adventures-of-a-bystander-by-peter-drucker) ## [Adventures of a Bystander by Peter Drucker](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/adventures-of-a-bystander-by-peter-drucker) ** Dec 31, 2020 10:05:52 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites) [** 0 Comments](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/adventures-of-a-bystander-by-peter-drucker#comments-listing) [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/adventures-of-a-bystander-by-peter-drucker) [![](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/hubfs/jan%20joke.gif) ](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/dilbert-by-scott-adams) ## [Dilbert by Scott Adams](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/dilbert-by-scott-adams) ** Dec 31, 2020 9:52:57 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites) [** 0 Comments](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/dilbert-by-scott-adams#comments-listing)   [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/dilbert-by-scott-adams) [![](https://storage.googleapis.com/hippostcard/p/0b744a291c0fdc337489477120dc7178.jpg) ](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/inclusion) ## [Inclusion](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/inclusion) ** Nov 29, 2020 12:28:21 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter) [** 0 Comments](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/inclusion#comments-listing) I worked for fourteen hours at the polls on November 3rd. 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