...received an email, edited here for length: From: John Jones <[email protected]> Sent: <Date> To: June James <[email protected]> Subject: John Jones Reference Request Dear June, I am pursuing a career opportunity...…
...sent it to a reliable and competent “friendly competitor.” I’d tried working with the lowest-cost plant … for 18 months … to help them “get it right,” but was finally...…
...decision-making. I wish them well. If your company hasn’t adopted Beyond Budgeting, though, I don’t recommend that you be the first to say, to the CEO and CFO, “You know...…
...business changes and improvements … a more enlightened model, but one relatively few companies have embraced. The second: Far too many companies are equipped with 21st century tools but a...…
...good work. So here’s some advice you can use: Forward the McKinsey & Company essay to your company’s executives and point out that, thanks to your visionary thinking, your company...…
...the competition. In the case at hand, one company’s executives considered the merger an opportunity to create a new company with enhanced capabilities and economies of scale. The executives in...…
...about rewards and motivation. It’s about the most tangible form of communication a company has — what it pays for. To understand this point, compare these two phrases: “Here’s what...…
...food away from its competitors. If you work in a company that acts as an ecosystem you have some hard choices to make. Don’t even try to change the company....…
...as single organism that comes in the form of thousands of individual bodies. This perspective is neither more right nor more wrong than the lots-of-critters perspective. It’s complementary — lots...…
...merchandise they need. And so, frustrated with the status quo, you form a committee which does what committees do, and produce a proposal. Its explanation of what’s wrong right now...…
