Grains of Gold

November 2011

3 posts

“Millions of highly paid MBAs and researchers scattered throughout corporate America, Europe and Japan spend a vast amount of their time cutting and pasting between Excel and PowerPoint when they’re not managing inboxes bulging with low-priority email. These PowerPoint decks are e-mailed and e-mailed again for editing, which results in multiple copies, the introduction of version control errors, mutually contradictory edits, and delays due to late-arriving contributions. This process screams for improvement.” —“Far from the Factory: Lean for the Information Age” by George Gonzalez-Rivas Linus Larsson

Nov 29, 2011

“40% of college students and 45% of young professionals would accept lower-paying jobs if they had more access to social media, more choice in the devices they could use at work, and more flexibility in working remotely. More than half of the college students surveyed indicated that if an employer banned access to networks like Facebook at work, “they would either not accept a job offer from them or would join and find a way to circumvent.” —Cisco’s Connected World Technology Report http://t.co/F4U77q5b

Nov 7, 2011

“I know a lot of companies with impressive mission statements. But there is a real difference, all the difference in the world, in the effectiveness of a mission statement created by everyone involved in the organization and one written by a few top executives behind a mahogany wall…without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.” —Stephen R. Covey

Nov 4, 2011