One of the things that I have learned over my few decades of "business-as-trench-warfare" experience is that properly thought-out and structured performance incentives are a critical component in getting people inside an organization to "do the right ... [Continue Reading]
Serious jump in US unemployment duration…
Wow. Takes my breath away... I think there might be a few different things behind this alarming curve, however these are only my own speculation: ... [Continue Reading]
Thoughts on time management
I'm just reading Ricardo Semler's fascinating book from 1993 -- it's his story of building and running the large Brazilian conglomerate Semco. The book is "Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace, and only 72 pages into ... [Continue Reading]
Why work doesn’t happen at Work (TEDtalk)
Just viewed this interesting TEDtalk from Jason Fried, who is the co-founder of 37signals. The talk lays out Jason's views on why it is so hard to get work done in a formal office setting, and anyone who has worked -- or is working -- in a ... [Continue Reading]
Monopoly-bashing Redux: university edition
A reader's comment on my earlier blog post Monoply-bashing in the New Economy starting me ranting on and on about the ironic nature of "higher education" institutions that present one face to the public but manage their operations in a totally ... [Continue Reading]
Career Tip: Don’t be an a**hole!
This "career tip" probably seems very straightforward as obvious advice -- we don't like assholes and nobody should aspire to be one. However, this advice comes from a significant lesson learned in my own career many years ago; it's a real story that ... [Continue Reading]
Career Tip: Work to Put Yourself out of Your Job
OK. I admit that the title might be a bit confusing -- why the heck would you want to put yourself out of a job? What kind of "career tip" is that? In fact, it is one I believe strongly in, and when I look back over my own career I realize that this ... [Continue Reading]
Monopoly-bashing in the new economy
I came across a wonderful blog post today that examines the issue of what it means to be an "engineer" and more specifically, the monopolist position taken by an individual certified engineer laying claim to ownership of a specific class of ... [Continue Reading]
“Corporate Social Responsibility” is a fundamentally flawed concept
The vast majority of business practitioners that I have met and worked with throughout my career are caring, honest people who one would generally regard as striving to be morally and ethically responsible. They don’t particularly want to run ... [Continue Reading]
Wal-Mart, me, and “green” consumption
Wal-Mart fascinates me and, in terms of it's relentless growth in size and scale, it also concerns me somewhat. It clearly has the market power to strongly influence consumption choices and to drive any kind of business practices throughout its' ... [Continue Reading]
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