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Jim Whitehurst: 20th century companies already hiring 21st century employees

Last night, Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst gave a talk to a group made up of mostly students and faculty at the NC State School of Engineering. Nice writeup of it in the student newspaper he… more →

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Jim Whitehurst: 20th century companies already hiring 21st century employees

cdgrams wrote 3 months ago: Last night, Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst gave a talk to a group made up of mostly studen … more →

Tags: Culture, Red Hat, meritocracy, Transparency, Collaboration, Voice, participation, the open source way, Hierarchy

Jim Whitehurst: 20th century companies already hiring 21st century employees

cdgrams wrote 3 months ago: Last night, Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst gave a talk to a group made up of mostly studen … more →

Tags: Culture, Red Hat, meritocracy, Transparency, Collaboration, Voice, participation, the open source way, Hierarchy

Q #200: Is there anything about business that has not as yet been said or written?

Bob Morris wrote 6 months ago: This question reminds me of this passage in the Book of Ecclesiastes (1:9-14 NIV): “What has been wi … more →

Tags: Bob's blog entries, Jim Collins, Good To Great, Warren Bennis, William Shakespeare, Stephen Covey, Peter Drucker, Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

Rise, decline and fall - the story of GM

adamsmith1922 wrote 7 months ago: John Kay writes at the FT on the rise and decline of General Motors. His article is a useful one, wo … more →

Tags: Business, 20th Century, Business Model, Management, Capitalism, change, John Kay, General Motors, Detroit

Signs and Symbols

sun secrets wrote 7 months ago: The business news of the week is that GM has hit a brick wall. GM and American car manufacturers hav … more →

Tags: Technology and Business, market economy, age of enlightment, Economic Crisis, γιάννης χοντζέας, GM bankrupcy, General Motors Bankrupt, democracy, french american revolution

R.I.P. Pontiac: Respects, but No Remorse

J. Davidson wrote 8 months ago: Pontiac has been dragging sand for more than a year. See my essay from March 2008: The Pontiac Probl … more →

Tags: Memo From Alfred P. Sloan, Today's auto industry, Origins of the Auto Industry Crisis, GM, General Motors, Auto Industry, Bailout, Buick, Cadillac

"Fill all niches" product and brand strategy adopter, GM, is falling on hard times

Alan Hart wrote 1 year ago: Image by Getty Images via Daylife As I read about General Motors going before congress and the recen … more →

Tags: Alfred P. Sloan, Bob Lutz, Brand, BusinessWeek, ford motor company, Game Theory, General Motors, GM, Honda

Peter Drucker in his own words interpreted for small business 1

smallbizguru wrote 1 year ago: “The purpose of business is to create a customer”. It sounds slightly strange, but I thi … more →

Tags: Business Ideas, Business Thoughts, Business Advice, Small Business, Peter Drucker, Henry Ford, customers

Judge an idea by its merit, not by the status of the person making it

Roger Costello wrote 2 years ago: Alfred Sloan of General Electric refused to allow the merit of an idea be determined by the status o … more →

Tags: James Suroweicki, The Wisdom of Crowds, Idea, merit, General Electric


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