Keith Sketchley
Engineering & Leadership capability for real investors, producers & users.
There is good news in businesses.
Here's an interesting case of a business operating well, including shifting services to suit location.
"We thought at the time that we had a strong food safety program and we did not." (Maple Leaf Foods president and CEO, Michael McCain regarding the serious case of bacteria in its sliced meat products in July 2008.)
Keith's comment: an established company with a good reputation wasn't doing what its bureaucracy thought it was. How can leaders prevent that?
"How long can a cow live?"
A good question from an anonymous poster in a discussion about airplane programs, "Airbus exec reportedly calls A400M an "absolute disaster"", on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website.
"Cash cow" business planners will be amazed at how quickly competition can come out of nowhere if you get complacent or presumptive.
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