Archive for the 'Management' Category

Different standards

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

One law for Wolfowitz, and another for the third world. What a pity the same standards don’t apply in both cases.

Strange point of view

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Spotted – this judgement on Toyota stocks in my bank’s online portal today:

Toyota does nearly everything right, but don’t buy

Translated:

Our vote – Unattractive
Toyota continues to do almost everything right

So what does an enterprise have to do to be recommended as a hot buy?

Bed bugs

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

This article on StickyMinds.com is about bed bugs (rather than software bugs) and how to react in a crisis. It’s quite interesting at that level, even if you’re not a software developer.

But what amazed me is:

  • how big bed bugs are (never having seen one, or been bitten by one)

  • the necessary measures to get of them once your bed is infected!

How large companies function

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

How it works
This is really how most large companies work… (click on the picture)

...and it is a great time-waster watching it :-)

The Toyota way

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

There are some interesting articles about Toyota in this month’s press – unfortunately if you want to read them in full, you are going to have to buy the magazines or pay to download the article from the Internet. Toyota is an interesting company because it focuses on getting the best out of its staff and its suppliers.

I’ve summarised some of the main points from both articles below.

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