ENTERPRISE RESOURCES
Business Values, by Branch Bank and Trust Chairman John Allison
Bill Gates' columns Ten Attributes of a Good Employee, What Makes a Good Manager, and Long-Term Leadership Demands Candor & Consistency
Usually found on www.microsoft.com in PressPass|Bill Gates' columns (or |Past Essays).
Today they are here:
No one can dispute that J. Paul Getty was successful in business. Less known are his criteria for good managers: no politics, speak up if things aren't right, treat people decently. (I hope to add references to articles.)
To come: good mission and values statements (if they walk their talk).
Creativity vs. Knowledge?
(Michael Hurd explains why there is no conflict, in Capitalism Magazine)
A comment on positive competition and teamwork:
Most have heard ad nauseum of the Survivors TV show, in which people play politics to get others kicked out of the tribe. But there is a positive TV show in which people use available resources to solve challenges, as a team. It is called Junkyard Wars (originally called Scrapheap Challenge). Look for it on "The Learning Channel" on US cable TV or on Britains BBC
network.
- thanks to The Intellectual Activist of May 2001 for the tip and Engineering Times 2001 for more info.
GOOD NEWS about businesses - positive/clever/humorous
and ...... Keith at (business) work
© Keith Sketchley, 2004.10.17 (1301PDT)
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