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 amazeer
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| posted on August 5th, 2009 at 09:49 PM |
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had to bite my tongue
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.
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Craig Torrens
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| posted on August 5th, 2009 at 09:53 PM |
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unlike you to bite your tongue !!!!
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amazeer
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| posted on August 5th, 2009 at 09:55 PM |
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no its not, but I thought 2 outbursts in one meeting might have been a career limiting move.
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colonel mustard
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| posted on August 5th, 2009 at 09:57 PM |
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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.
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| posted on August 5th, 2009 at 10:00 PM |
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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.
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Craig Torrens
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| posted on August 5th, 2009 at 10:02 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by amazeer
no its not, but I thought 2 outbursts in one meeting might have been a career limiting move.
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he he......the good old CLM!
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winerot
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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
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| posted on August 6th, 2009 at 08:39 AM |
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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
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| posted on August 6th, 2009 at 09:26 AM |
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groundhog day - welcome to your new life chris.. kill me! 
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shaihulud
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| posted on August 6th, 2009 at 11:22 AM |
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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 .
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LUFTMEISTER
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| posted on August 6th, 2009 at 07:38 PM |
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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.
Customer service is not dead in Australia.
Always after HAZET & MATRA & VW factory tools
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| posted on August 6th, 2009 at 11:10 PM |
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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
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