Money and Pebbles. Ends and Means. No Justification.
Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money …
Monthly Archives: March 2012
I Was Fired. This Is My Story.
I was still early on in my career; I had made my first job change, and I soon would be …
Sprinkling the Pixie Dust
I was very new to the company. I was in a meeting with the regional vice president and the regional …
Dr Pepper’s Shadow
One day, an executive decides to have lunch in the associate cafeteria for the first time. Immediately recognized, she chats …
7 Corporate Tenets… and a Witch Hunt
We were 100 strong, spending an afternoon out of the corporate office in a department meeting reviewing progress and plans. …
Management by Walking Around…in a Loop
A CEO who had begun to practice his own form of “management-by-walking-around” learned from his employees that the company inhibited …
Jerry’s Trip to Abilene
That July afternoon in Coleman, Texas was particularly hot — 104 degrees according to the Walgreen’s Rexall’s thermometer. In addition, …
Time Out: An Application Possibility
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in …
“Close Cover Before Striking”
Got a match? Matches aren’t quite so prevalent these days, but back in the day, they were; and back in …
Doing the Math; Not Necessary!
“I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by …
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