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Originally Posted by justplugit
Of course,companies are out to make $$, grow, make more money, hire more people and grow some more. That's success and means more opportunties for more employees and more hiring.No secret here.
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Put my response in context of yours that I was responding to, you've got it backwards.
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Originally Posted by justplugit View Post
I would say any fortune, large or small, is built on the opportunities
provided by others. Very few grateful for what others have provided for them.
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Fortunes are often made by the innovators, risk takers and the fortunate (i.e. also known as the lucky :hihi). It's usually not that they have an opportunity handed to them, they create it, but to fully realize it requires both capital and labor.
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I agree corporate culture has changed drasticaly in the tretment of their employees over the last 15 years as the "60's" "Me Generation has taken over management in a large number of companies.
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I don't think it has as much to do with the generational shift as it does the ever increasing trend towards "short-term'ism."
We have a market where billions are traded in seconds and everybody lives on a knifes edge. People watch the stock ticker like it's a ball game. Banks are running complex computer models to determine who's small business loan or mortgage is most at risk and should be yanked at the first opportunity.
I think a lot of this has to do with the shifting of our economy towards a more services based market where productivity is much harder to measure. Factories are easy, you've got assets and resources that when managed well produce X amount of product. With a services based economy there's a hierarchy of value that's being speculated on at many levels...it's so freaking complicated few are smart enough to understand it, and those who do typically are scared #^&#^&#^&#^&less.
-spence