Category: Corporate Confusion: We’re up to Our Necks in it.
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Joe has mastered the craft of building chairs. He has made a few and they are selling well. He charges $20 for each chair. It costs him $7 to buy the wood and nails to make 1 chair. It takes him around 12 working hours to make 1 chair. $13 profit = $1 an hour…
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Mercedes: Remember when we were kids and Edmond got that whistle for his birthday, and you got a pony? You were so mad that Edmond was happier with his whistle than you were with your pony. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) Who are these Joneses we keep hearing about? What is success? There’s the…
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My first full time permanent job began sometime in the early 1990s. It was a small lighting fixture manufacturer rune by 2 brothers. Their 2 wives ran the office and reception, and there were two other guys making the fixtures before I arrived. A grand total of 7. There are a few stories from this…
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I wonder if there was ever an empire that grew out of popularity rather than conquest. Imagine a ruler who was so awesome and a society so envied that people were just compelled to join; they flocked to the place, and tales of this alluring kingdom spread far and wide. It expanded to an empire…
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One of the great big budget disaster films; the plot is not too important. Or I should say, it doesn’t need to be too convoluted. The crucial factor for this genre is getting the audience to care for, at least some, of the main characters. Keep the suspension of disbelief going strong and get us…
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You’ve connived your way to the head of the table in the village. You’ve annexed a bunch of smaller villages and tribes. Maybe even seized some big ones. You are now ruling an empire! Congratulations. You’re on easy street now… I’m afraid I’ve got bad news sir. Ever notice how throughout history occasionally, some kid…
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Let us assume that neither utopia nor dystopia are on the cards for us working slobs. We are not going to work 1 or 2 hours a week and live lives of convenience and leisure. We hopefully are not going to live in a future with unprecedented poverty and unemployment; where there are only three…
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“I was born condemned to be one of those who has to see all sides of a question. When you’re damned like that, the questions multiply for you until in the end it’s all question and no answer. As history proves, to be a worldly success at anything, especially revolution, you have to wear blinders…
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“Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain’t satisfied ‘Til he rules everything” Badlands – Bruce Springsteen What a man wants and what he is willing to do to get it are two very different things. There weren’t any lotteries in ancient times. If you wanted to live the…
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The promise was fantastic! Machines would do all the hard work, and we would have loads more free time. All the work that needed doing could be done faster with the help of technology. We could smash the required tasks faster and clock off. The same would apply to household chores and maintenance. All the…
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