Even in conventional bean-counting terms, radical management turns out to be two- to four-times more productive than traditional management with its focus on scalable efficiency and treating customers and employees as things to be manipulated.

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As so often with data, it is the simple business of counting things and keeping consistent, accurate records that turns out to be where the glitches occur.

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By making imports cheap, the strong dollar has helped to keep American consumer-price inflation down (though not, it turns out, as low as it seemed, thanks to a double-counting of quality improvements that the government owned up to this week).

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