VolStrom
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My mind has regressed to crinkled up punch cards a lot of days from the bubble memory it used to run on.Now that's a low blow. Actually it's an age related thing, I take what I can get - I can't tell you how many times the one word or name I want goes AWOL, and the more I try to think of it the more elusive it becomes. Something like a tormented wordsmith in literary purgatory. Oh, and the kicker; a few minutes or hours later I'll be doing something completely different and the word or name pops up. Apparently the synapses running the filing system aren't up to the job these days.
My mind has regressed to crinkled up punch cards a lot of days from the bubble memory it used to run on.
When I was in my 30's we were learning the 8 step process of organizational change. My witty colleagues renamed it the 3 step process. 1- Jump to conclusion, 2 - Shoot from the hip, 3 - Cover your ass.I'm going with all the wisdom we've accumulated, the file drawers are overflowing with information, and the runners can't cope. That's why the under thirty crowd is sure they know better than us - they are faster at finding an answer ... even if it's wrong.
When I was in my 30's we were learning the 8 step process of organizational change. My witty colleagues renamed it the 3 step process. 1- Jump to conclusion, 2 - Shoot from the hip, 3 - Cover your ass.
We used to call that Values, Vision and Vomit.Did you ever see an organizational change that didn't screw stuff up? I can't remember one that helped in the slightest, and most were major blunders created by a new manager out to leave his mark - which he did smashingly well. Remember when all the corporate "values" and "goals" BS went rampant? And worse, none of it had anything to do with the job at hand; it was like a B School make work project for the mentally handicapped who couldn't learn what the business was really supposed to do.