1. We examined Mintzberg's "How Productivity Killed American Enterprise".  Can you relate Gracia's "Corporate Short-Term Thinking and The Winner Take All Market" and "Too Much of  a Good Thing" to Mintzberg's article?

2. Do you think firms today are more performance driven than before? Do you agree with the performance-driven business model?  Explain and use examples (outside the article) if possible.

3. On page 2, Gracia stated " Specifically, the phenomenon can be interpreted as a side effect of free market competition and, therefore, not only are there no "magic bullets" available, but solutions based on radical forms of intervention are likely to do more harm than good."  Assess this statement.