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How competitive are you?
Would you eat nails for breakfast, as 11% of men and 3% of women said they would in a BusinessWeek survey of 2,509 Americans in middle management and above, 25 years and older, conducted by Beta Rearch Corp. using an online panel? This reminded me of the season finale of The Apprentice 4 where Randal… Read More »
Another mindboggling statistics
Hummingbird’s Information Management Survey of 1,385 business executives revealed that 29% of departing directors have admitted to stealing corporate information when they left a company. The survey, conducted by polling company YouGov on behalf of Hummingbird, also found that 24% of the thefts involved using memory sticks or MP3 players to move data and 18%… Read More »
Jack Welch squelched
I’m glad a mainstream magazine finally came out of the woods to debunk Jack’s rules (see FORTUNE‘s “The New Rules“, August 7, 2006). FORTUNE‘s story essentially argues that it’s very much time for new rules of success, ditching an obsession with managing quarter-to-quarter earnings to please Wall Street and in the process, disinvesting in the… Read More »
The future’s so bleak…
The FORTUNE Retirement Guide (June 26, 2006 issue) cited a Rutgers study that concludes: “The vision of a traditional work-free retirement is yielding to a new notion of a work-filled retirement.” That probably explains why Lee Kuan Yew, at the ripe old age of 83, is still up and running (though I suspect the real… Read More »
A matter of choice
Recently, I had an exchange with a colleague regarding business travel and I realise that, for many organisations, there is still a wide chasm between management and employees on this issue. Here’s the situation: The company that I work for has organised a trade show in April in Hong Kong. Some employees have thus been… Read More »