Business development: 94% of challenges are internal
Cosmic shift from even the early 1990s. Continue Reading
Profits
Why Men Are Awful: On the pussy-profit paradigm
I came up with this about a week ago. Like any not-really-developed theory, it has a lot of holes in it and is based largely on stereotypes. For these things, I do apologize upfront. I do think there’s a bit… Continue Reading
Profits and share prices are the RESULT of organizational actions, not the GOAL
Here’s an article on Harvard Business Review about how the Internet is going to make managers care more about their employees. I actually disagree with that notion — hierarchy ain’t going anywhere anytime soon and, if anything, the era of “customer-first” business practices will probably… Continue Reading
The last time Amazon didn’t post at least 14 percent sales growth in a quarter was the fall of 2001. Whoa.
Check out the chart above; essentially, the last time that Amazon had quarter-over-quarter sales growth of less than 14 percent was, ahem, 2001. This is a completely new model in the business world in some ways, because while their sales growth — and the… Continue Reading
Humans are basically powerless when it comes to undercutting corporations
When you have a bad customer service experience, normally you think “Well, that sucked.” Some people also think, “If I complain to the company, or maybe talk about it on Facebook, or maybe tell my friends, then that will hit… Continue Reading
What’s going on at Butterball right now?
I started thinking about Thanksgiving from a turkey perspective today — I’m cooking, for probably about five or so people, and economic times are lean, so I wanted to find myself a steal. That got me thinking about the economics… Continue Reading