Archive for Learning from Big Biz
Toyota’s Apology Reveals Teamwork
I found it interesting that Toyota shows many different employees in the commercial, from the salesman on the showroom floor to the assembly line workers inside the factory, soberly laboring away while a compassionate voice apologizes for the whole mess. No heads on sticks, but no heads in the sand, either.
The love of small business or the fear of large corporations.
One of the many rituals of working in a large corporation is the annual reshuffling of headcount, it seems that in today’s economy companies are cutting back, and cutting back and cutting back. One of the many frustrating things about this cycle of job loss is to whom gets cut. In really serious cutbacks everyone [...]
Marveling at Disney
My 6 and 8-year-old boys will be teenagers by the time Disney gets around to the X-Men and Ironman, and I expect they’ll be the new Disney market by then; the brooding young male. But we
