Without Internet.
I’m at a coffee house with wireless. Otherwise it would be Wednesday until I could let everyone know just how bad I now hate Bellsouth. I’ve been without service since Saturday. And I’ve got a whole lot of thoughts on DIRECTV, Bellsouth, and lets just add Target on the list as well. Ironically, I just got my business license and state LLC approved. So I’m now at the small, beginning stages where most of these companies started off as. I’ve been thinking a lot about capitalism, systems, and organizations. Get ready for a few weeks of redreaming economics and business when I finally get the internet up and going again.
Joshua Case
Monday, 15. January 2007 um 11:25 am Uhr
Might be interesting to try to get a copy of Rodney Stark’s book entitled: “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”. Heard a few people talking about Stark’s “The Rise of Christianity”. Seems to be a pretty good thinker. Bet you’d like him at least.
Tad Thompson
Monday, 15. January 2007 um 12:04 pm Uhr
Key to Business is common sense. That is it. People that lack common sense should not run a business, or create policies/ procedures for them. Having worked at BellSouth before, (and subsequently resigned for personnel reasons not too unlike your consumer experience) the problem lies where someone’s “policy” is not rooted in common sense and they force their subordinates to support that policy. Pretty soon, you end up with an entire corporate culture that is way off base with their customers all because someone in charge had a pretty lame idea and nobody in the company had the marbles to say so. AND, to top it off, those that do have the cajones to say something, usually won’t make it high enough to actually start to change some of those lame ideas. Some, like me, move on…while others just get stuck in the obscure layer of middle management.