by billc | Nov 15, 2020 | Newsletters
Group endeavors are enhanced if they are based on cooperative teamwork. Likewise, a department of an enterprise attains superb performance if it exhibits unity or a team approach. Thus, a company imbued with teamwork from one side to the other, from top to bottom,...
by billc | Nov 15, 2020 | Newsletters
Company leaders repeatedly say something like: “Our employees are our strength” and then set out to starve those employees completely by ignoring them, berating them or treating them like less than full human beings. No leader intends to belittle an employee, but when...
by billc | Nov 15, 2020 | Newsletters
Last month we devoted the CCCC Newsletter to a recent book publication by Henry Mintzberg (1), an MBA professor at McGill University, who made the claim that our entire society is negatively and seriously affected by an inadequate and perverse MBA educational system. ...
by billc | Nov 15, 2020 | Newsletters
How often do we run into the situation in an office where one individual gets special treatment? Everyone walks lightly around the person, or as is often stated, we find ourselves walking on eggshells. The old adage applies: the family dances around the most...
by billc | Nov 15, 2020 | Newsletters
When we enter office climates, we are usually confronted with a maze of worker cubicles, this being the current wisdom for office organization. Cubicles are used because they are deemed to be more efficient – or perhaps, make these companies more efficient. More than...
by billc | Nov 15, 2020 | Newsletters
In 1979 Dr. Ichak Adizes lamented that the management of corporations was failing abysmally (2). With twenty-five years to improve since that book’s publication, have things gotten better? ‘No,’ according to Henry Mintzberg, an MBA professor at McGill University –...
