What's wrong with our companies today? 15 Articles

by Robin Landry

In today's tight economy, individuals and businesses alike have set about "tightening their belts." While expense reduction and control is important, companies must also take care to ensure that extreme cost containment m...read more

by S. Linda Jensen

This rather dramatic story is but one example of what is wrong in many of our companies today. Companies have many parts that don't fit, that is one big problem. Do you ever wonder if it is a reflection of the immediate...read more

by Writer M

Simply said, quantity verses quality! That is the answer. Ethics, reward and recognition, caring and sharing, personal touches, have been replaced by assembly lines of hurried thought and actions! There is little ti...read more

by Robert Bluck

It would be easier to say what is right with our companies than to attempt to tell you what is wrong with them. I can not think of anything that is right with them, so here is some of the things that are wrong with compan...read more

by Thomas Johnson

What is wrong with companies today? My answer to that question would be that a large part of what is wrong with companies today is reflective of what is wrong with society as a whole today, i.e., we have become too impers...read more

by Kristi Stalnaker

America for the Big Business by the Big Business America is not for the people by the people anymore; the big businesses have taken our rights and thrown them to the wolves. Politicians want no more than to make us believ...read more

by Adele Gregory

Companies today can suffer from putting too much faith in the idea of a one-size-fits-all winning formula that will ensure success for anyone anywhere. The result can be a series of trial-and-error restructurings which wa...read more

by Joe Coffman

Why don't companies produce job ads that make people want to work for them? A recent Dilbert comic caught my attention: Catbert, the evil director of human resources posts a job opening that goes something like this: "...read more

by Tami Roxanne Barker Norman

The companies in present day time are most deffinently different from those throughout the past, and the truth is there are positive and negative things to be said as in comparing the present from the past companies throug...read more

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by E. B. Smith

You received a call from a potential employer who was very interested in your abilities and your skills. You attend the interview. The interview goes well. It seems to be a great fit. Finally after a few days the company p...read more

by Lorrie Smith

Searching for another corporate job. You'd think I'd learn. I've been in the corporate world for 24 years now. Wow, where did the time go? I was a superstar in the 80's and 90's. Since then life has happened to me and...read more

by John S Willard Jr

Does your company appreciate you for who you are? Do they actually value you as an employee and not just someone to wait on or service customers? Do they care? Today's companies are a far cry from the companies that our...read more

by Em Dickinson

What's Wrong with Change Management? "If anyone is bitter, if anyone disagrees with all the change I have instituted around here, then you and I ought to have a conversation," said the CEO at the top of her lungs as she...read more

by Leslie Gaines

Companies today are the same as they were 10 or 15 years ago, and that is wrong. The world is changing, but some behaviors in the workplace are not. The notion that there are companies that have telecommuters is absurd. ...read more

by TMMONROE

Presently, I work in a government agency which has mountains of work coming in each day. They want an employee who can multi-task. It is more difficult working for the government then for a private company. At least with t...read more