This is crap but you should read it anyway. Groupthink alert.
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Question of the Day – August 7, 2009 – Can Businesses Really Do More With Less?
At the end of 2007 a large Midwestern US insurance company instituted mandatory 55 hour workweeks for their underwriters.
A year later, that same company a laid off a bunch of people. Some of these employees were the same people from whom management mandated OT from just one year prior.
The hamsters are dying. I don’t think they can do more with less. Time for a new business model.
My answer to the question is NO.
Businesses Learn To Make Do With Fewer Workers : NPR
Since December 2007, the labor market has seen a net decline of 6.5 million jobs.
Read a Book a Week – Off The Shelf
One of my less than normal habits consists not only of the number of books I read, but also the manner in which I read them. At any given time, I could be reading between 8-10 books, each at a different stage of completion. I rarely read just one book at a time. So to sooth my latest obsession I’ve started reading Manias, Panics, and Crashes by Charles Kindelberger. I expect the same type of lessons learned from reading Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay. Remember that the good times never last as long as you would wish and when times are bad things do eventually get better.
Different perhaps, but better.
I changed the theme of my blog and hope you like it. The new appearance is clean and easier to read than the last theme. Of course, I reserve the right to revert.
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