Over the past few months, I have had a couple of things taken from my desk here at AT&T. The first is loose change that I had sitting in a little cup. The funny thing was the trail of coins running down the hallway which I wondered if I followed would I find Hansel and Gretel sitting in some cube counting the stolen loot. As someone that usually over analyzes things, I wondered how much they could have taken if they pulled a Johnny Cash and took "One Piece at a Time": "I'v ... 
I still remember my mother telling me that if I get a college degree that my employment ticket would be checked. My grandfather reiterated the same thing as I was the first one in the family to attend and graduate college. For that generation, college was indeed a luxury and something special to celebrate. Companies were more than willing to pay extra for that knowledge and experience but something interesting happened along the way to the bank. Time and businesses didn't stand still for ... I don't often cut and paste other articles but Robert Kiyosaki has written an excellent article that fits in nicely with several of our posts concerning change. Allow me to quote a small piece of the article: I believe there will be two newsworthy groups to emerge between 2010 and 2020. One big group will be the Dumpies, so named because life leaves them down in the dumps. Many in this group are old hippies who flourished during the ‘60s and forgot to grow up. Not all Dumpie ... Forrest Gump is widely recognized as a management guru; well sort of. One of the quotes attributed to Forrest is his ideas on business. "Don't own nothing rent your shoes if you have to". In other words, keep your costs to a minimum. Convert everything to a variable cost, outsource everything that you can, and focus on your competitive advantage. Outsource everything? Per John McEnroe, "You cannot be serious". The answer is yes and no. You can't actually outsource everything si ... |
