It fails miserably when the critical resources of a firm are software, intellectual capital, brand names and fiscal wizardry.
At a moment when the spectacle of the global stock market is increasingly taken for granted as an indisputable justification for dismantling various social programmes, we must learn to mobilise the critical resources of spectacle as ingeniously as Debord's own text does.
Sadly, it is also to be reminded how little passion figures in the critical resources of today's academic literary technicians, who study literature for a living without seeming to love it.
But in fact we are driven by something much bigger: The ocean is a critical resource for all of the world's people, and yet many are still unaware of its plight.
Benthic invertebrates are a critical resource for the survival of overwintering shorebirds, yet the abundance of invertebrate resources in agricultural wetlands such as these has not been quantified.
This pattern results in a steady supply of fruit, making figs a critical resource for animals during times of food shortage.
With this information, we can optimize care and the use of critical resources to reduce the rate of complications and adverse events, thus improving the health of patients who must undergo serious procedures.
Changes to the river's flooding regime will harm yields from flood-recession agriculture, prevent the replenishment of important grazing areas, and reduce fish populations -- all critical resources for livelihoods of local indigenous groups.
