Mike wrote:
>based on my observations, the average company has ten people who
>couldn't pour sand out of a boot for every one who can.
Thank you for Mike's Colorful Expression of the Day. This is almost up
there with arguing bullet calibre in front of a firing squad.
>make more mediocre products. that in turn means it's time to "grow in
>the marketplace", which means hiring more incompetents to drag the
>system back down to a point where it's in balance.
You guys/gals have heard my second-hand opinion on this before, as I've
quoted my brilliant management consultant/psychiatrist friend Dr. Jim Farr,
who says that a company's level of creativity and productivity grows in
inverse proportion to its size. When I see announcements of big mega
mergers (or read of "integrators"), I think of two elephants mating, with
their offspring mutating into a dinosaur.
>the lesson for freelancers in all this is that an operation with ten
>competent people can realistically kick the pants off a company ten
>times its size.
I guess we got the right domain name for this, right?
> the two areas where you have to concentrate are
>quality and communication.
gee whiz, Dave and I manage to drive each other totally nuts with
communication problems. Imagine if there were a few more of us??? Perish
the thought!
My big question is, Mike, when are you gonna write your book?
Suz
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