Lucy Kellaway: Eliminating miserable middle management may be a mercy killing, not a crime
Lucy Kellaway: Almost all companies are dysfunctional, and the place that hurts most is half way up. Being a middle manager is the most thankless job.
Lucy Kellaway: Almost all companies are dysfunctional, and the place that hurts most is half way up. Being a middle manager is the most thankless job.
Panem, with its great inequalities of wealth and power, is used as a model for everything: If we don’t raise the minimum wage, we’re Panem.
Roy Raymond was a sad pervert. He’d buy bras and panties at the department store and all the clerks thought their thoughts about him.
Even when fire has done its very worst, one still has to resort to it. ~Nigerian proverb. Nigerian proverb. Fire-fighting Nigerian style – don’t bet extinguishers will work.
Sometimes we South Africans get confused about who our real global friends might be. The bottom line of the collapse in the oil price is set to provide a timeous reminder.
Wendy Kahn of the SAJBD, says the attempted disruption of the Woolworths AGM “was a political event– an opportunity for BDS to push their political agenda.”
The real question needing to be asked is whether investors are getting a fair deal from asset managers in return for acting as custodians of their savings.
Fierce rivals, Samsung and Sony also face many of the same problems: overstretched businesses, a dearth of game-changing products, hierarchical corporate structures and proud places in their national psyches.
The JSE All Share index is trading 1% lower in morning trade dragged lower by the resource sector as BHP Billiton and Sasol experience significant declines following the outcome of yesterdays OPEC meeting.
Rotational power cuts will be implemented this weekend in a bid to increase Eskom’s water and diesel reserves.