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Tag: business
i spent 4 years in management consulting, and have finely tuned bs detectors to show for it. this show is quite incisive.
“The guys in this show are pirates who actually leave you thinking that you need them. Which is extra cool and a real accomplishment for pirates.”
competition might be a myth. seeing how ineptly most companies run their IT, it is a mystery how they can stay in business. so presumably they aren’t really exposed to competitive forces.
The best organized store other than the apple store. The throughput is amazing.
There might be an equally untalented filmmaker in your office
Having established a reputation among the Flagstone Marketing staff as a quiet and reserved temporary worker, Kevin Bright completely shocked his coworkers this week when it was discovered that, outside the office, the mild-mannered 27-year-old is actually an embarrassingly unskilled singer-songwriter. “I don’t think Kevin’s said more than 5 words to me in the month he’s been here, so I was really surprised to find out he has this whole pitiful music hobby on the side,” said account executive Sandra Hutchinson, 39, who was among several employees that happened by chance to attend one of the soft-spoken and largely forgettable temp’s horrendous sets at a local coffee shop Tuesday.
Automatic 20% tip for 2 people: douchebag establishment
Rational pricing incorporates tax to come out with even amounts. Unclear why most establishments are confused about this. Or what the benefit of lying about your prices by omitting tax is.
The era of 20-somethings blindly stampeding their way towards law school seems to be finally, mercifully drawing to a close.
if lawyers want to have a place in society that is not just leeches, they need to remove friction from transactions by automating contracts and thus lowering risk. law practice employs far too many humans and is far too manual.
The Fed could kill checks but isn’t. the 19th century checks business is not just embarrassing but hugely inefficient and harmful for the economy.
IFT — the ability for me to pay you, and for you to receive the funds within minutes, rather than having to wait until the following business day — is already a fact of life in many countries around the world, from India to the UK. Where it doesn’t already exist, you can be pretty sure that someone is working hard on a plan to make it happen. Except in the US, where no one seems to have even started the process yet.
checks, just like smallpox, can be eradicated. the obvious way is to slap a surcharge on them to reflect the true cost.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 