Category: Companies
-
(Modern) Slavery…
People bound to their relationships. Doing things just to please others. Employees tired to their employers. Doing things just to satisfy them. Managers enslaved to their customers. Adhering to whatever they say as long as they are happy. CEOs enslaved to their shareholders. Making everything possible to make them happy. People bound to their desires…
-
HR (lost) wisdom: The toxic culture of ‘Perfectness’ (The Nimitz example)
Society today values being perfect. We seek perfect professionals. We seek perfect companions. We seek perfectness in anything we do. And sure… HR ‘lets go’ of people who are not perfect. The mottos of companies promote excellence and perfectness. Why seek anything else? Would anyone pay for failures? Not the perfect ones! I am sure…
-
The Boeing case: Not Boeing’s fault! It is our ethics!
Last week several emails exchanged between Boeing employees were revealed, in which those employees seemed to know about the problems of the 737 MAX airplane and even ridicule the authorities and the airlines for believing them that there were no problems. The investigation is ongoing.One cannot of course know from now the result of the…
-
Stop spraying! I want to make a nuclear tes… errr, I meant “I AM AN ECOLOGIST”!
Stop spraying! It is YOUR fault that the ozone layer was destroyed! (1) No. It is not the hundreds of nuclear tests conducted on the surface of the planet or in the atmosphere! It is YOU, you evil citizen! You, who wants to spray your hair! Shame on YOU! We, the industrialists know. It is…
-
Be a rebel! Cut the tube!
You cannot even imagine how much cream is left inside a hand cream tube after it is SUPPOSED to have finished. The tube plays a very specific role in todays consumer society: It makes it difficult to use the product, usually forcing you to use MORE than needed (in case you extract more cream by…
You must be logged in to post a comment.