Tag archive for “Corporate Culture”
“Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people.”
“Treating your rocket scientist employees as if they were still in kindergarten is not an isolated phenomenon. Almost every company has some kind of incentive program that is insulting and demeaning.”
“Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.”
“All good work is done in defiance of management.”
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
“Police-mentality planners design workplaces the way they would prisons: Optimized for containment at minimal cost.”
“If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.”
“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time.”