This page contains a few tidbits from my days working in industry that I feel are worth preserving. There is both serious and satirical content here and I'll add to it as I run across other materials to share. Use it freely if you like: none of it merits copyrighting. Indeed if it can be helpful to anyone, even if only to lighten the weight of a bad day, your copying and sharing would be an honor.
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This is a document that I developed during the second half of my working life to share with newly hired employees. It is advice which I wish someone had shared with me early in my career: before I was too jaded to observe it.
Ten Commandments for Making a Career out of a Job
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According to renowned Management Consultant, Peter Drucker, "For every level of management in a hierarchy, communication is cut in half and noise is doubled". Anyone who has worked in a large organization knows this. Here is a parable called "The Plan" that illustrates the concept with wry humor in quasi-biblical style. As it happens, the last few years of my industrial career were spend in the Financial Planning. So, even though I did not write this, I feel as if I lived it annually.
The Plan
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It may seem as if I pick on Peter Drucker, a lot, but he said a lot of important things! Another quote of his that stuck with me like goes: "Excellent managers hire great managers. Mediocre managers hire poor managers." You can see this everywhere, especially in our own government! The best thing about this quote is that it immediately forces you re-examine your own hiring experience. Out of one such self-examination came this trifle which I call Management 104. The course has a very short syllabus!
Management 104
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