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organisational systems

One big damning multiplier

I do not think I could have written it better, so I decided to quote Bloomberg Businessweek (May 6, 2013) verbatim. I hope I will be forgiven. “Peter Drucker, the celebrated management theorist, certainly thought that the CEO-to-rank-and-file multiplier mattered. … Continue reading

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For techincal support call ..

No, my spell-check did not have a nervous breakdown. It really reads ‘techincal‘ not ‘technical‘. Now the story. I was staying in a hotel. Does not matter where and which one, but that was an English-speaking country. I was connecting … Continue reading

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The lesser evil of trust

What if you have two bad choices and you have to choose one? You go for a lesser evil – the one that relatively looks better because it hurts less. What if you have no-one to trust and you have … Continue reading

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Life in a post-trust world

I have said some bad words about companies and their inability to develop and maintain trust. It would be unfair to say that the future must be always and inevitably grim and bleak in the post-trust world. There is always … Continue reading

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Breach of trust

I wrote recently about the problem with hamburgers tainted with horse meat. It seems that the story has run to its logical conclusion. Tesco has severed its ties with its hamburger supplier. The cited reason: ‘breach of trust’. Note: it … Continue reading

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