Don’t lie to me!
Reliable sources inform me that the giant Nokia is currently laying off about 50 workers a week. Silently. Worldwide. That makes a total of 2,600 a year. Not too many if compared with the 59,000 of Citigroup, 35,000 of Bank of America or 24,500 of HP. But still, many more than the 600 they forecasted [...]
Push it up!
With the economic turndown still spinning around our heads, creativity is today the golden rule, even more than what it used to be. In order to avoid those catastrophic consequences the whole media is warning us about, businesses must now think twice before starting a sales campaign or launching a loyalty program.
Thus, here you have [...]
How to fire a CEO
You have created an above-average successful company that seems to be growing without showing any signs of recession, while most of your competitors are slowing down. In any case, you have the feeling that the growth is starting to become overwhelming, and that you cannot reach every member of your crew and have the need [...]
Mexican sombreros and Russian vodka
This morning one of my new colleagues surprised me: she just arrived from Singapore in order to visit our Headquarters, get used to the local processes and get to know the people here. Until here, nothing out of the blue. The interesting part arrived when she mentioned that she was quite disappointed by the fact [...]
Three sweet ways to help you optimize your business relationships
It is quite clear that the current economic environment is not the easiest one for just about every company. Almost every day one can read in the news about layoffs, or even big multinationals shutting down.
Established is also the fact that, in order to improve margins and optimize processes, in the nowadays existing picture a [...]
