We had a state of the nation type meeting at work today. All the execs telling us how we have to lift our game, improve processes n all that stuff. Fair enough, I couldnt disagree, we probably do. Its just that the new plan is to pretty much go back to where we were 3 years ago when I started there.

But then he goes and uses the volkswagen analogy. "Our company is running like a volkswagen, and we want to upgrade to a porsche" What what what?!?!?! I would have let rip only my sarcastic and cynical tongue had let loose a little earlier and it hadnt gone down well.

unlike you to bite your tongue !!!!

no its not, but I thought 2 outbursts in one meeting might have been a career limiting move.

I get crap for having a VW all the time... some day stupid people will realise we like air cooled vw's, and like to mod them... I can think of at least 3 bugs that iv been in that can beat your crap family sedan (falcadores...) there are heaps out there. yeah... DB cant beat a porsche... you should'a went for it.

I would rather be seen in a VW Beetle rather than a Porsche.

Oh and I can hop in and have a seat and a start and little workshop drive in any of a dozen Porsches at work at any given time, 911S, 911T, 928, 930, 944, 356 etc.

you should have told him that vw is one of the most powerful companies in the world at the moment & is buying out porsche.
in other words you would want your company to run like volkswagen & what he said is actually taking a step backwards.
wally

Like all management decision in big companies they try n reinvent the wheel and end up back where they started

it happens every day one M

groundhog day - welcome to your new life chris.. kill me!

Amazeer.

I used to be in the Commonwealth Public Service. Talk about rearranging things all the time. Most of it was completely uneccesary. It just kept them happy and me irritated.

In 66 AD, Caius Petronius, an ancient Roman said,

"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, ineficiency and demoralisation."

I recently read a book about Alexander the Great, in which it said that every time he had conquered a country, he would completely reorganise his army into what it had always been, an invincible fighting machine, to keep the troops occupied, while he readied himself for his next campagn.

There ain't nothin' new .

Haven't you guys worked out upper management techniques yet? There are really only 2 stratagies 1/ centralise = equals cutting cost/forming teams/bean counting, then once the company starts going to shit, you bail out with a golden handshake. No #2 Decentralise = getting in touch with your customers/big advertising budgets/junkets, opening more branches/empire building. Once the cash flow starts to become a problem, bail out with golden handshake So when a new CEO joins a company he just does the opposite to the previous guy thus EARNING his Golden Handhake . What stage are you at.

Dubb61,
1-2-1-2-2-1 and counting?

Shaihulud,
That quotation was hanging up at the first P.S.
Office I worked at back in '83. No-one in managment (public or private large companies) I've worked for since has proved Petronius wrong .

I just wear the mask of Dilbert nowadays.......


Ctefeh