Comments on: Marketing Inbound

By: Zalim

Zalim — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:52:42 +0000

Good point, couldn’t agree more here with you.
Popular decisions may be taken only as long as they don’t kill or otherwise harm the business in the first place, or else the ultimate decision of shutting down would lead to ALL laid off, which doesn’t sound very popular

By: crazyideas

crazyideas — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:27:46 +0000

The comment is irrelevant. The idea is that it is about helping people achieve goals. This cant always be done, but the company is focused on it when the business supports it. Businesses have to make changes to stay alive and healthy in good times and bad. Execution is not always perfect. The CEO in question has made lots of decisions that probably favor the people more than the company but when its a life or death scenario tough choices have to be made for the good of the organization, despite the goals and dreams of individuals. Downsizing or strategic changes in management dont take away from what has been built and the overall focus on people.

By: Zalim

Zalim — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:34:59 +0000

Hm, that information I wasn’t aware of, thank you for commenting. But for making the point the example was still worth trying. Unfortunately, perfect ideas turn out to be not so perfectly implemented in the real life, and that happens way too often…

By: cutfromtheteam

cutfromtheteam — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:22:57 +0000

That particular CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? has overseen 4 successive rounds of layoffs in his company over the last three years, including removing his whole executive team and 20% of what’s left of the company, in October. I’m not sure that was anyone’s “life goal.”