http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/01/15/without-internet/ irregularities and other absurdities Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:22:16 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/01/15/without-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-13533 Tad Thompson Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:04:56 +0000 http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/?p=1678#comment-13533 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. 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.

]]> http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/01/15/without-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-13532 Joshua Case Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:25:01 +0000 http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/?p=1678#comment-13532 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. 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.

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