The priorities and expectations an enterprise articulates to its investors ultimately are translated into the corporate culture. And the corporate culture drives employee morale, product and service quality, customer relationships, and the company’s place in their community. Read more…
I rarely see a movie more than once. The truth is, I rarely see a movie once, because a movie doesn’t usually hold my attention and I either fall asleep or move on to something else. But there is one movie I have seen more times than I can count: “When We Were Kings,” a documentary directed by Leon Gast, subtitled “The untold story of the Rumble in the Jungle.” It won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It’s worth seeing numerous times because of the quality of the production and direction; but mostly it is also worth seeing because of the story. Read more…
On the front page of The New York Times today there is an article with the headline: “Automakers Fear a New Normal of Low Sales,” which caught my attention because the fear is so rational that I’m not certain it qualifies as “news.”
The article, by Bill Vlasic and Nick Bunkley, raises the question of “whether the auto industry will ever again have sales levels that it took for granted just a few years ago.” Read more…
Yesterday I began to use my new kindle, which is an entirely new device available from Amazon. If you haven’t seen it in person, you can find out more on the web at www.amazon.com/kindle Imagine a device that looks sort of like a frame that is about 8? high and less Read more…
Imagine you were an international star. Imagine that the news media is going crazy over allegations that you just might be a pedophile. Now imagine that the District Attorney where you live initiates legal action based on that allegation.
Here’s what you would do: First you would ask “Who was Michael Jackson’s attorney?” Someone would tell you it was Thomas Mesereau. You would say:
Given the title of my blog, The Death of Time, I think the first entry should answer the question: what does that mean? So, here goes.
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