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Work wisdom

Kauffman’s Paradox of the Corporation:The less important you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or absence is noticed. The Salary Axiom:The pay raise is just large enough to increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your take-home pay. Weiner’s Law of Libraries:There are no answers, only cross-references. Lampner’s… Read More: Work wisdom »

Blind leading the blind

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

What it really takes to be great

In the October 30, 2006 issue of FORTUNE, Geoffrey Colvin cited Boeing CEO James McNerney as one of the 13 peak performers in the cover story on “Secrets of Greatness“. Somewhere in the interview, McNerney responded to the question of whether great performers in any field tended to receive a lot of early encouragement from… Read More: What it really takes to be great »