The salmon comment by President Obama turned out to be one of the funniest comments of the State of the Union. The fact is that organizations – including Government, for-profit,non-profits are equally hilarious in what they do and more on why they do it. There must be some good reason that one arm of GovernmentContinue reading “Of salmon – freshwater,saltwater and smoked ! The wonder of organizations and the President’s speech”
Category Archives: Team Work
WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday – adding value when all information is available
The latest round of WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday (November 2010) is ironic. Cyber Monday got its name from early days of the Internet when folks would go to work on the weekend after Thanksgiving and use the high speed office broadband for Internet shopping for Christmas and the holidays.Now the Cyber Monday deals start onContinue reading “WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday – adding value when all information is available”
Ireland: from boom to bust and bailout
Some years ago I had been researching the great outsourcing work being done out of Ireland. Being culturally closer to the US, it was easier though costlier to work with Irish providers. Ireland had beaten unemployment from 16% down to 3.9% and Government incentives including low taxes had major companies like Pfizer, Dell, Microsoft, Google doing a lot of work from Ireland. In fact, with no tigers in Ireland it came to be known as “Celtic Tiger” given its huge growth and success like the South East Asian “Tiger” countries in early nineties.
[Note: This post is originally published Nov 22, 2010 updated for formatting only May 18, 2021]
Rolls Royce engine troubles: why aviation industry closes ranks on safety but pharma can’t
You might have heard (November 10, 2010) about the Qantas plane to Sydney whose engine parts blew out part of the fuselage and the plane luckily made it back to Singapore. Since then several airlines with the Rolls Royce engines have been grounded for checks and verification.
[Note: This post from November 10, 2010 was updated for formatting issues on May 31, 2021]
Global organizations think local in India – GE,UTC ,Pepsi – the US small business “global” ecosystem?
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BP Oil spill and cement quality – is it only a Halliburton contractor problem?
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Chilean miners rescue unifies the world
Where is Chile – exactly? I knew that Chile is a Spanish speaking country in South America known for Chilean wine and well regarded for football (soccer in the US) but the non-stop media coverage of the miners’ rescue on TV in US,Europe and Asia convinced me that we all need to know a little bit more about Chile. The interesting part is that Chile is that long western strip in South America you would recall from Geography class- home of the Andes mountain range.
[ Note: This post from October 13, 2010 is updated on June 4, 2021 for formatting and a flashback video from NBC]
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”
Let’s be fair to the BP report for recognizing B2B and Supply Chain control and oversight
The media coverage of the BP report highlights the blame game between BP and its subcontractors. But to be fair to the BP report there is a part in the full BP report (Section 6 Part 5 page 185 of 192) that spells out what BP and the offshore oil drilling industry might like toContinue reading “Let’s be fair to the BP report for recognizing B2B and Supply Chain control and oversight”
Organizatinal change and innovation- understanding tribes in Afghanistan and thinning out
September, 2010 .Face it – innovation and change in organizations is really difficult but most business organizational change and innovation pale in comparison to what Gen Petraeus needs to deliver in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, we have thousands of years of poor governance compared to the benchmark of the observers’ governance standard of the time. ButContinue reading “Organizatinal change and innovation- understanding tribes in Afghanistan and thinning out”