Category: Corporate Confusion: We’re up to Our Necks in it.
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Q) How do you know when a politician is lying? A) Their lips are moving We’ve all heard that one, I’m sure. I’ve got one with a slight twist: Q) Why aren’t there any honest politicians? A) Because who would vote for them. Not as witty as the first, but just as true. If a…
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INT. BANK EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM – DAY CHAIRMAN: You promised innovation. A move to a new frontier of trading and investment efficiency, I believe that was the term you used. CEO: There has been an 8% rise in share prices in the last three months CHAIRMAN: It was 16% in the same quarterly report last year.…
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As we have seen, empires rise and fall. Some become part of a new conglomerate; some become a mere shadow of their former selves and others fade away completely. Kings, queens, czars, pharaohs, maharajas, emperors, shoguns, sheiks, Grand Poohbahs and anything else you can think of. They’re all dead and buried and the magnificent dynasties…
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I can’t let it rest just yet, not until I get the key point sorted. In the previous post I explained my theory that almost all people on the bottom to middle management spectrum of the corporate structure are just working stiffs on different income levels. It possibly goes on all the way to the…
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Let’s have a peek at that mysterious netherworld of the corporation. All those people in ‘middle management’, who work at ‘head office’ and any other characters that the workers on the floor randomly see being led around the facility by a honcho or never see at all. In this topsy turvy wonderland, positions appear and…
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“We’re all gunna die!” someone screams in a crowded supermarket. People’s ears prick up and they start attentively scanning their surroundings. “We’re all doomed!” comes the voice again. Some people feel that spike of adrenaline and become hypervigilant, causing them to hit the deck or rush for the exit. A few ignore it or laugh…
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If my amateur calculations are correct, the Zhou Dynasty in ancient China was entering its twilight years when Alexander the Great was conquering the world; a world in which China did not exist apparently. The Qin Dynasty would rise and fall; and be replaced by the Han Dynasty, all while Ancient Greece was the centre…
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“Monday’s Experts Always know what’s best Always tell you what you should’ve done Monday’s Experts Always know what’s cooking How the game was lost and how it could’ve been won” Weddings Parties Anything 1993 “Management is so fucken stupid here.” “Our supervisor couldn’t organise a fuck in a brothel.” I reckon it would be impossible…
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Joe just secured a contract with a national retail chain. Demand for his chairs has now risen sharply! Not only will they take any surplus he has now, they can also easily absorb as many as Joe and #2 can turn out from now on. It’s time for our entrepreneur to do some calculations. Joe…
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First was nothingness…I can only assume, and then we’re born – Pow! ‘Welcome to the world’. No say in the matter whatsoever – How rude! There I was blissfully unaware of anything at all and now I’m here covered in blood and slime, having to breathe on my own – this is bullshit. Ouch, they…
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