Labor Unions and Continuous Learning
10 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
Union involvement in continuous learning is most effective when it displays the following characteristics:
- Management policy actively invites and supports an important partnership role for the union.
- The collective agreement between management and labor defines their respective roles and establishes the lasting basis for cooperation.
- The parties act jointly in program control, planning, design, and direction of learning programs—at national, regional, and plant levels.
- Unions and workers participate fully in needs analysis and course-content decisions, and they share the responsibility for successful results.
- Instructors are selected from the regular work force. They are assigned equal status and full-time duties to develop content, deliver courses, and evaluate results.
- A jointly administered fund finances training programs and assures a long-term commitment to goals and objectives.
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International Investment
07 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
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More important than world trade in the future may be worldwide capital investment—buying stock in companies in other countries, buying farms and businesses in other countries, building your own plants in other countries, and joining firms from other countries in producing products for world markets.
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Sun Tzu’s Advice to Strategy Makers
05 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
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More than 2300 years ago, Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War, an amazing book on the principles of military strategy. Herebelow are some idea extracts:
- Adopt SOSTAC. He believed that it is essential first to carry out a complete analysis of the situation. The strengths and weaknesses of one’s position, the relationship between one’s goals and the goals of society at large, the intensity of one’s courage and determination, and the worthiness and integrity of one’s objective must all be carefully evaluated. Even then, it seems, SOSTAC (Situation Analysis, Objectives, Strategy, Tactics, Action, and Control) was emerging—situation analysis, objectives and strategy.
- Do your Homework. Those who triumph, compute at their headquarters, a great number of factors, prior to a challenge. Those who are defeated, compute at their headquarters, a small number of factors, prior to a challenge. Much computation brings triumph, little computation brings defeat. How much more so with no computation at all. By observing only this, I can see triumph or defeat.
- Develop some options. Therefore those who are not entirely aware of strategies that are disadvantageous, cannot be entirely aware of strategies that are advantageous.
- Know your Resources. You must be certain that your resources have been carefully evaluated before engaging in this challenge.
- Why senior management Support: before engaging in a challenge, a leader must be certain that the organization is prepared to support the expense of a confrontation.
- Do you hurt your market or environment? Brilliant leaders are always aware of the entire system, both inside and outside of their organizations. They know that to harm or destroy what is outside will hurt their own growth, while employing their rivals and incorporating their resources will enhance their strategy.
- Put everything in place before making a move. Sun Tzu believed that a true victory can be won only with a strategy of tactical positioning, so that the moment of triumph is effortless and destructive conflict is avoided even before considering a confrontation – for whatever purpose.
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Technological Change and Diffusion
04 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
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Both the rate of change of technology and the speed at which new technologies become available and are used have increased substantiality. Perpetual innovation describes how rapidly and consistently new, information intensive technologies replace a competitive premium on being able to introduce new goods and services quickly into the marketplace. In fact, when products become somewhat indistinguishable because of the widespread and rapid diffusion of technologies, speed to market may be the only source of competitive advantage.
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