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April | 2008 | The Sisyphus Chronicles
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Archive for April, 2008. The Conference we’ll never Attend. Here’s the annual conference I’d love to attend:-. The World Conference on Failure. 20 Business and World Leaders honestly and openly discuss. The decisions and actions which contributed to their significant. Business and political disasters/failures/catastrophes. But which for obvious(? Reasons it will never be held. Why would I want to attend this type of conference? What types of failures? One of the failures which jumps immediately to mind i...
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March | 2009 | The Sisyphus Chronicles
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Archive for March, 2009. Where else but @pdejager. March 15, 2009 at 11:41 am. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Blog at WordPress.com. Follow “The Sisyphus Chronicles”. Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Build a website with WordPress.com.
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March | 2008 | The Sisyphus Chronicles
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Archive for March, 2008. Can you Live with that? Welcome to the hard and rocky field of business ethics. Notice the question was “What do you do? 8221;, it was not the far easier question, “What is the right thing to do? If you don’t hire the niece, will your boss hold a grudge? How will you know? Ethical business behavior is important. How many of those resumes in our imaginary scenario would be from Arthur Andersen or Enron employees? If you were being interviewed, would you state proudly(? The issue o...
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Problem Solving Webinar – Today – August 14th 2008 | The Sisyphus Chronicles
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Problem Solving Webinar – Today – August 14th 2008. August 14, 2008 at 9:10 am. Tricks, Traps and Tips for better Problem Solving. Although you’re more than welcome to send me a note of appreciation and/or order some books as a way to support the costs of providing this service. For all the details. If you work for a living, then you solve problems of all types.This session will explore some simple PS concepts and explain how we can use formal, and informal, PS techniques in every day Life. Entry filed u...
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June | 2008 | The Sisyphus Chronicles
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Archive for June, 2008. Making a Date with a Crisis. Regardless of our circumstances we often share the same thoughts. The notion It can’t happen here , is such a common way of looking at disaster, that even Kissinger got into the act with his famous There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Humor aside, disasters happen regardless of what you had planned for the week. How badly they affect us, is determined by our ability to respond. Something happens, before it actually occurs...
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Baseballs, Mars and Strategic Planning. My interest is in the Future, because. I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Charles F. Kettering. At the foundation of most Strategic Plans there rests a simple question,. 8220;Where do we want our organization to be in five years, and what must we do, and when must we do it, to get there? That question looks like a good one. The answer will have all the attributes of a sound objective. Asking,. 8220;Where do we want our organization to be in five years?
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I get Twitter now – finally | The Sisyphus Chronicles
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I get Twitter now – finally. April 2, 2009 at 4:30 am. First thing worth mentioning? I have no way to prove this, but I suspect that more than a few readers of this infrequently updated blog have just bypassed this post because they saw the word ‘Twitter’ in the subject line. I did the same thing for three years. Twitter? Not interested. Nothing there for me. Nothing to see here. Move along. Why mention him if I’m trying to build a case for an association getting involved with Twitter? There is a segment...
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February | 2008 | The Sisyphus Chronicles
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Archive for February, 2008. Lewis Carroll on Change Management. In Lewis Carroll’s classic, Through the Looking Glass, the Red Queen admonishes Alice with “in this place it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” So much for the concept of a self sustaining ‘Status Quo’. Giuseppe de Lampedusa echoes this same idea in another, seemingly paradoxical manner, If things are to remain the same, things will have to Change.”. He’s also attached a beehive to the horse in the hope that ...
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July | 2008 | The Sisyphus Chronicles
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Archive for July, 2008. Writing serves many purposes – here are some of the reasons why I write (even why I participate in list serves). 1) It helps you think. If you can put an idea down on paper then you are inevitably deciding, from one word to the next, what is important and what is not. Since writing is sequential, since you can’t say everything at once, you have to impose an order on your thoughts. As a speaker – this is useful, but it’s useful to anyone in any endeavor. 2) It’s practice. Marketing...
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September | 2008 | The Sisyphus Chronicles
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Archive for September, 2008. The Victims of Change. How do you suggest we deal with the victims of the changes we embrace? 8220;We produce a magazine. A new application offers too many advantages for us to ignore. With decreased markets, we must be very cost conscious if we’re to survive. This new solution will almost totally eliminate the need for our current Grpahic Designer. The downside to this new way of doing business is the loss of significant annual income for this designer. Us and the Designer).