My recent observation of the workplace: People who are clueless about operational issues are making decisions on operations. To make matter worse, people who are vested with the authority to approve those decisions have an implicit trust in the clueless. Technorati Tags: management workplace
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While they share a similar set-up, Costco is in fact the antithesis of Wal-Mart. Unlike Sam’s Club, Costco has embraced good business practices and treats its employees with respect. Jim Sinegal, its CEO, rejects Wall Street’s assumption that to succeed in discount retailing, companies must pay poorly and skimp on benefits, or must ratchet up… Read More »
I’m sure you have all been to those business meetings where the boss extorts, oops, exhorts employees to strive to achieve 101% of the target. Well, let’s one-up the situation (two, if you do the math). Here’s a formula that might prove helpful in delivering 103% results: What makes life 100%? If: A B C… Read More »
Excerpts from Bill Gates’ speech at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose when he received the museum’s James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award for his philanthropic work through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (“The Way We Give“, FORTUNE magazine, 22 January 2007): “In 1997, I went to South Africa to dedicate a… Read More »
I’ve just ported my blog over to the new version of Blogger. Overall, the migration has been seamless but some of the HTML codes and text alignment seemed out of place. The last week or so has been spent fixing related issues. If you still spot any broken links or such, feel free to drop… Read More »