Corporate Think - On the Outside Looking In

A few things at work today had me shaking my head.

1. Does a corporate think that anything that it comes up with can't be legitimately copied? A competitor has announced a copy of a service offering, within a few weeks of us announcing ours. Well surprise surprise. I'd say the clever thing is to try and come up with something that can't be copied within a year of it happening. And I have the answer!! But I'm not saying.

2. With all the writing and discussion about Social Networking, you'd think that a corporate would have some idea about how to attract the best people! They have no bloody idea at all! All they do is bang out another advert into the newspapers and sit there waiting and hoping and praying that the right people respond and apply. There no sense of networking to attract the best. So the recruiters are having a field day, taking advantage of this situation, and also pumping out the same old crap. I'd love to have a crack at attracting the right people into a corporate by doing some networking.

I am becoming stunned into silence. My mouth opens to say something, and brain says, forget it Tony, it's just not worth the hassle, just agree with them. I see something wrong, and I want to put it right. It doesn't mean I'm always right, but jeez, right now I want to scream. All I can do right now is write political emails, so that's it's down on record.

I don't want to be right, I want to make it right!! I'm impatient, I'm not a good convincer, I see things which to me are blindingly obvious. We could stop mistakes being made now, but apparently you have to wait for them to make their mistakes, and mop up afterwards. This is very good training for parenthood, because clearly my 2 year old daughter knows best, and no amount of wisdom on my side will convince her! Maybe I'm being the 2 year old who thinks they know best!!

Comments

[Che]

Funny how YOU cling to the idea that they haven't thought about what you've been thinking. This just in---corporates have thought about these things, too! But the proof is in the pudding [shorter version]. It's the result that counts--money, tons of it, loads of it. It's not an obscure fact that the BEST people around do not always produce the most profit. If corporates have been around before you came along, corporates are going to be around long after you're gone. O, but don't take my word for it.

[shannon]

Great post Tony. Loving the observations of life inside Big Corp.

Posted some thoughts and opinions in my blog today

Cheers
-Shannon