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Category Archives: Education and Training
For jobs we need to innovate and expand the pie says Jack Welch
Jack Welch joined Donald Trump this morning outside the New York NBC studio at the plaza, they talked about Jack Welch’s appearance on The Apprentice. Towards the end of the video Jack Welch was asked about how jobs can be created. Innovation and expanding the pie is the way to get jobs according to Welch.Continue reading “For jobs we need to innovate and expand the pie says Jack Welch”
Southwest Airlines and AirTran Merger : synergy in routes -just need to align “low-cost” culture
Herb Keller got Southwest Airlines going and was much celebrated as a CEO who knew how to get the mission and vision of the company “owned” by every employee- a feat that most CEO’s can only dream of doing. The current Southwest CEO and Chairman Gary Kelly favors serving larger airports that Southwest earlier avoidedContinue reading “Southwest Airlines and AirTran Merger : synergy in routes -just need to align “low-cost” culture”
“Outsourced” at NBC is so yesterday
It seems that the new “Outsourced” series on NBC is a TV version of the movie Outsourced (2006). At such a difficult economic time in the USÂ – hackneyed stereotypes of Americans and Indians do not foster global understanding and are certainly not funny if the US viewer is unemployed. Just see the comments onContinue reading ““Outsourced” at NBC is so yesterday”
Employees First -Customers Second – the enabling CEO and Gen Y
Vineet Nayar ‘s ideas are quite remarkable and yet simple. He says that its really important to be able to motivate employees through transparency ,empowerment and enabling. The employee should truly feel that this is her/his company, cause and customer and s/he is the “owner”. Also Nayar is one of the first large company CEO’sContinue reading “Employees First -Customers Second – the enabling CEO and Gen Y”
How’s the Internet changing your business? USA Today sheds 9% workforce and Telecom shake-up with Google VOIP
The Internet is truly the global life changer.If you can answer just how the Internet is changing your business and act on it – you’ll do great. Consider two recent events: USA Today has shed 9% of the workforce as it tries to go digital. A Communication Professor once told me that Communication and JournalismContinue reading “How’s the Internet changing your business? USA Today sheds 9% workforce and Telecom shake-up with Google VOIP”
Public Works give work to machines and not “shovel ready” men in the 21st century
This post was published on August 2, 2010 during the recovery process from the Great Recession of 2007-2009. We believe that the core idea idea that you need advanced computer and knowledge skills in large scale shovelling still holds in 2021. Just as Governments worldwide try to dig out of the Coronavirus pandemic – Updated January 10, 2021.
Understanding the business and running the software- are these some new jobs coming up?
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Sense and respond in a slow economy
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Jack Welch and the “Buy-Make-Sell” sell for non-profits
I am again (!) reading Straight from the gut by Jack Welch. With many contacts with present and former executives from GE what amazes me is that these variety of executives sing the same song as Jack Welch even ten years after Welch retired. And guess what – they have not really read Jack’s books-Continue reading “Jack Welch and the “Buy-Make-Sell” sell for non-profits”