Mindful of Freudian slip, I decided to check out Typealyzer, a website that will analyse your blog and tell you what it says about you. It says that I’m a Doer (ESTP). Created by Mattias Östmar of PRfekt, a Swedish research and development company focused on media analysis, Typealyzer scans your blog and comes up… Read More »
…this isn’t gonna work. Like the troubleshooting scripts straight out of a Windows help playbook, Hunch purportedly allows users to harvest the collective wisdom of Netizens by answering questions they’re interested in and then getting a second opinion based on some information about themselves as well as the answers of those who have jumped through… Read More »
workforce optimisationstandard delayeringrestructuringre-engineeringresource rationalisationdownsizingvoluntary separation Why don’t companies call a spade a spade and just say that they are laying off people, rather than attach fancy labels to such exercises? Related posts:A new kind of retrenchmentHow the ax falls, Filipino-styleTop 10 buzzwords in 2009
From “Low-priced Nano taps into Indians’ aspirations“, The Christian Science Monitor:That could be problematic for the company, which made some big-ticket purchases – including the troubled Jaguar and Land Rover brands – during the height of the economic boom. The company also failed to get many Nanos off the assembly line before launch, thanks to… Read More »
In his recent Value Driven column (“Chris Dodd Wants to scrap Your Bonus“, FORTUNE magazine, March 16), Geoff Colvin argued that the proposed tough new limits on Wall Street bonuses in the US stimulus package will “inadvertently reward nonperformance and drive talented financiers away from the companies that need them most”. Ignoring the simplistic examples… Read More »