http://www.businesspundit.com/flavor-of-the-month/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.businesspundit.com/flavor-of-the-month/comment-page-1/#comment-1900 Jerome Alexander Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:10:34 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=3029#comment-1900 When will they learn that all management fads have a limited life! There are no "silver bullets" and no substitutes for good smart work. Worse yet is when some consultant tries to evangelize the workforce into believing in some "new religion" replete with its own rituals, icons, and Bibles. It's all intended to convince the masses that their attitudes about pay cuts, grueling schedules and idiot managers are wrongminded. God forbid (the real one)that anyone ever gets on the wrong side of one of these "prophets" by having an original thought or even daring to question the doctrine. Remember the Spanish inquisition? What an insult to the intelligence of employees and good managers. Successful organizations innovate. They are honest with their workforce and respect divergent opinions. They do not need to use goofy gimmicks and play games with employees' psyches. In fact, there is really only one thing that all successful organizations have in common - they are successful. Excerpted from "160 Degrees of Deviation: The Case for the Corporate Cynic." When will they learn that all management fads have a limited life! There are no “silver bullets” and no substitutes for good smart work. Worse yet is when some consultant tries to evangelize the workforce into believing in some “new religion” replete with its own rituals, icons, and Bibles. It’s all intended to convince the masses that their attitudes about pay cuts, grueling schedules and idiot managers are wrongminded. God forbid (the real one)that anyone ever gets on the wrong side of one of these “prophets” by having an original thought or even daring to question the doctrine. Remember the Spanish inquisition? What an insult to the intelligence of employees and good managers.
Successful organizations innovate. They are honest with their workforce and respect divergent opinions. They do not need to use goofy gimmicks and play games with employees’ psyches.
In fact, there is really only one thing that all successful organizations have in common – they are successful. Excerpted from “160 Degrees of Deviation: The Case for the Corporate Cynic.”

]]> http://www.businesspundit.com/flavor-of-the-month/comment-page-1/#comment-1899 Jonathan Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:36:01 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=3029#comment-1899 Can I add global warming (or, if this were the 1970's, global cooling) to the fad list? Here today, gone tomorrow. Can I add global warming (or, if this were the 1970’s, global cooling) to the fad list? Here today, gone tomorrow.

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