Tag: Busines

You can’t ‘out business’ your competition

One of the greatest fallacies of organizations is the belief that they can out ‘business’ their competition.  What do I mean by out business?  Well generally it means that their is a belief by management […]

Unrealistic Activity (which is like unrealistic expectations)

Learn about prostate produced power points and excreted excel sheets that come from too much reporting as a function of the job

The Bachelor Black Hole

A professional individual contributor is the personification of the middle class.  Initially PIC’s were not Individual contributors.. they were management.   Professionals got their start in complex jobs and middle management, entry level white collar.  You […]

10 things companies don’t want to pay for but employees need.

lunch breaks work / office space vacation time   health benefits unemployment insurance worker’s compensation retirement plans training cell phones / office lines / internet for work higher salaries

The Netflix Slide Deck, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Netflix slide Deck has been called the most important document to come out of Silicon Valley. It has some very good and bad in it…

Title Roulette

What’s in a title for a Professional Individual Contributor?

It takes six months.

The Professional Individual Contributor is a subset of the more common term ‘white collar worker’ (WCW).  I don’t use the term white collar worker because that WCW also encompasses management, both perceived (supervisor or director […]