Tag: business

Accurate Corporate Sim

You have only 5 minutes the shuffle off this mortal Flash-based coil before you face something even worse: a meeting with your boss. Enlist the aid of office supplies, co-workers, and unexpected workplace dangers to kill yourself. This isn’t a tough game to win, but it’s fun to explore the area for new, interesting ways to hurt yourself.

heh. that reminds me of digitas / kpmg

AOL Powerpoint paralysis

Ever wonder precisely why big companies such as AOL are so painfully sluggish? Here’s an insight from AOL. The company engaged a top-tier naming agency, evaluated 120 different options, tested the finalists with focus groups in Denver and Chicago, checked on the meaning in 16 languages — and the brand strategy group explained its process in a laughably belabored 20-slide presentation.

heh. i bet that company in sunnyvale is pretty much the same

Good is nothing like great

Fire 50% if your salesforce. Then, give the remainder, the top people, a big raise, and use the money left over to steal the best salespeople you can find from other industries or even from your competition. You’ll end up with fewer salespeople. But all of them will be great.

Don’t brag about Facebook

A Goldman Sachs trader named “Charlie” was warned by his employer that his visits to Facebook on company time were to stop. He spent over 500 hours on Facebook in a 6 month period. That works out to 4 hours per day.

Unwisely, Charlie posted the warning email on his Facebook account, saying “It’s a measure of how warped I’ve become that, not only am I surprisingly proud of this, but in addition, the first thing I did was to post it here, and that losing my job worries me far less than losing facebook ever could.”

social networks are the new unions

$50M orbital race

Anyone who wants to follow in the shoes of Burt Rutan and win the next big space prize will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than 5 people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete 2 orbits of Earth at that altitude. Then they have to repeat that accomplishment within 60 days. While the first flight must demonstrate only the ability to carry 5 crew members, the winner will have to take at least 5 people up on the second flight. They have to do it by Jan. 10, 2010.

finally some movement