GEICO’s Lakeland employees received a profit-sharing bonus of 24.2 percent, up from 17.7 percent last year, employees told The Ledger.
Notes on W.L. Gore & Associates
Yes, there is a point to all of this. The key article is the business case study from Huizenga Business School at Nova Southeastern. Very handy. W.L. Gore & Associates is the fave of most postmodern organizational theorists, who see the company’s lack of official hierarchy as the true networked organization. I believe that Gore has a great culture, but …
Bureaucratic Hierarchy vs. Hierarchy
Scheidegger describes a distinction between “bureaucratic hierarchy” and “hierachy per se” within organizations which shows how people currently understand the term “bureaucracy”.
“Genevieve W. Gore, Co-Founder of W.L. Gore & Associates, Dies at 91”
I just saw that Genevieve W. Gore, co-founder of W.L. Gore & Associates, died 2005 January 20 at 91. Gore and her husband, Bill, created the company that bore his name. It is now a billion dollar company that ranks #2 on the Top 100 Companies To Work For list. It is a blow to the company, and to her …
SUCBAR With All Your Might! How to Screw Up your Career Beyond All Recognition
Are you a young, high-potential? Do your coworkers roll their eyes when you try to talk about something you see as a risk down the road? Do you tell yourself “Sometimes you have to do things that you don’t want to do” to justify staying in your position? Does your job bore you silly?
Then you might already be well on your way to screwing up your career beyond all recognition!
Sputnik and Outsourcing
Corante’s Outsourcing blog has reprinted T.A. Heppenheimer’s fascinating “How America Chose Not to Beat Sputnik Into Space” [NO LONGER AVAILABLE] from the Winter 2004 issue of Invention and Techology. [Update Now at American Heritage.] Also see the copyright information for the article. [Defunct link] I’m not sure what this really has to do with outsourcing, but you can see how …
“Average CEO now makes $10.7 million” [Reuters]
Reuters reports today that CEO compensation has changed to more long-term options tied to stock performance. MSN ran it as “Average CEO now makes $10.7 million: Pay packages 5% fatter in 2004, but corporate leaders are working harder for their stock incentives, survey finds“. For this to be Requisite, read it in light of Mark Van Clieaf’s work on CEO …
When You Are Too Big For Your Job
When you are a high-potential, you grow at a steeper trajectory than most people do. They advise you to do this and do that, but it doesn’t work. And it fails simply because you have grown beyond the size of the work.
Support for Human Capability Developmental Model
From The First Idea: Through a field study, we have been able to show that the early capacities are mastered for the first time (and then continue to be further developed) during specific, predicted time intervals. [pp. 54] No, I haven’t chased down the study yet and, no, I haven’t determined what these time periods are. I’m not done reading …
Emotions as the Foundation of Intellect
‘…a baby first learns “causality” … through the exchange of emotional signals (I smile and you smile back).’ [pp. 51]