Ronald Jenkees: A YouTube Musical Phenom
Check out Ron Jenkees’ intro for Bill Simmon’s podcast. This track is a banger. Ron does a great job of describing the track himself, “It’s got a real dirty sound, like a rusty steak knife cutting through a well aged steak.” If Bill Simmon’s doesn’t use this for his podcast, I might just stop listening […]
Wicked Awesome: AL East Standings as of 05/28/2007
Well, you don’t need a thousand words to describe this picture; in fact, five will do quite nicely. Red Sox Rock, Yankees Suck! Image courtesy of Boston.com.
WaMu: The Right People for the Right Job
Washington Mutual doesn’t look at a person’s skill set or previous accomplishments when they’re looking for a new hire, instead WaMu looks for certain attitudes. They believe they can teach any necessary skills to people, but they cannot train people to have a good and positive attitude. A big part of making sure employees have […]
The Strategy of No Strategy
Professor Stookey [Principles of Management – Umass Amherst] made a very good comment in the description for this post that Robbins and Coulter rely on "rationality, logic, and order" to describe strategy and how to implement it. In my mind the word strategy implies a logical and ordered plan of action. I feel that growing […]
Welcome to the human resource.
It was sweltering hot in Boston today, but I enjoyed it. Living in Southern California and North Carolina, I’ve gotten used to hot temperatures and actually quite like the very hot days now. Anyway, small rant aside, I’m posting another discussion post from my Principles of Management class at Umass-Amherst, as it is still too […]
Centralization vs. Decentralization
The title says a lot for tonight’s post, which is pulled from the Principles of Management class I took at Umass-Amherst during the winter 2007 semester. The advantages and disadvantages of centralized versus decentralized organizational structures lies greatly in the inherent qualities and effects of the structures themselves. Robbins and Coulter describe this very well, […]
It Just Works: How Apple’s Planning & Strategy Create Intuitive Interactions for Consumers
Pending any errors or glitches, I’m done with my group project for my Statistics course (10% of the final grade), so now all I have to do is take the Statistics Final and I’m done with the Spring semester! To mix things up a bit, tonight I’m posting the last essay for my Fundamentals of […]
Planning at the Lend Lease Corporation
The majority of my finals will be over tomorrow night, so you’ll start seeing some fresh content soon. For tonight, I’ll be publishing one more discussion post from the Principles of Management class I took at Umass-Amherst in the Winter 20007 semester. To anyone who has the textbook, Management by Stephen Robbins and Mary Coulter, […]
Severance Contracts: What About the Rest of Us?
Today’s post is another from my discussion assignments for the Principles of Management class at Umass-Amherst. I’m still in finals week right now for the Marketing and Stats classes I’m currently taking so I won’t have much time to post anything else. Today’s post is relevant to an event that occurred a few days ago […]
Fair Trade vs. Global Business
The material in this post is another discussion assignment from my Principles of Management class at Umass-Amherst. The two classes I’m currently taking are in finals week right now, so I likely won’t have much time to post new original content here this week but will try to write a post or two unrelated to […]
Intuit: The Small Business Helpers
Another day, another discussion post from my Principles of Management class at Umass Amherst. This assignment involved describing why a company on Forbes’ 25 best managed list was so well managed. I chose Intuit, the makers of Turbo Tax and other accounting software. If there are any Intuit employees out there reading this, I would […]
Au Bon Pain, Richard Thibeault, and the Controls that “Guide” Them
This discussion post, for a Principles of Management class at Umass-Amherst, was in response to an article in the Wall Street Journal, entitled “In Name Only: For Richard Thibeault, Being a `Manager’ Is a Blue-Collar Life — Grueling Hours, No Respect Make Low-Tier Bosses Feel Tired and Troubled — `Factory Work Was Easier‘”, written by […]
Timbuk2 Case Analysis
The below post was an assignment for the Principles of Management class at Umass-Amherst. The question posed was whether Frederick Taylor’s Principles of Scientific Management would be beneficial for Rob Honeycutt, the owner of Timbuk2 Designs. Part of this assignment was also to post a response to my classmate’s responses; I have not included this […]
Javaprenuers: Corporate Managers Tackle Small Business Ownership
The below essay was written as a mid-term assignment for a Principles of Management class at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The very summarized case background involves two people, Jose and Gladys, who rose to upper management positions at Wal-Mart and J.C. Penney (respectively), yet were not content with their professional lives. The two […]
ABA, Always Be Authentic: A New Decree for Modern Salespeople
As a former sales representative, I have some insight into this week’s assignment: “Is the role of salespeople under appreciated by consumers and/or over abuse by companies? In your experience as either a salesperson or a buyer, what attributes of salespeople tend to be the most important or annoying?”. I submitted the below response for […]
Top Hit for “Social Network Revolt” on Google!
In my daily googling today, I searched for “social network revolt” to find some articles on the Digg HD-DVD AACS key controversy that occurred at the beginning off the week. To my surprise, the post I wrote early in the morning on May 2nd, “A Social Network Revolt:; Numbers, Banned on Digg.com” came up as […]
A Social Network Revolt: Numbers, Banned on Digg.com
Ironically enough, there’s a social network revolt being staged right now at digg.com, for the exact reasons I highlighted in my previous post. A certain set of numbers are spreading like rapid-fire across the internet. The numbers are an encryption key for HD-DVD that will let individuals watch HD-DVD’s on unsupported hardware and software, for […]
Freedom, Banned in Boston: Mayor “Mumbles” Menino Fumbles with WiFi
By modern standards, I’ll be discussing some old news tonight, but it’s important and a topic I want to throw in my two cents on. A little over a week ago, a Boing Boing reader discovered that the popular group blog was banned on Boston’s WiFi network (for more background on the story, Google “WiFi […]