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Flood Waters in the Midwest

March 21, 2008 by Jim Parker in friends, humanity

This is a bit off topic for this blog, but significant nevertheless for me. I’m from St. Louis Missouri, where area rivers are overflowing their banks. I have extensive pictures posted at my flickr account which can be found here: Jim Parker ’s Flickr

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Who Reinvents the Firm?

March 17, 2008 by Jim Parker in corporate, dna, leadership

One of my favorites, Umair Haque, (who is now writing at hbs too) wrote the following last week in a blog entry:

“That feeling - like a dull toothache - is a massively powerful heuristic that something is deeply wrong; wrong with McJobs; wrong with $100m bonuses for value destruction; wrong with the evisceration of variety, choice, and happiness; wrong with the long slow death of culture and community; wrong with the sinking intuition that like you’ve signed away your life when you walk into that cube, all for a few bucks and free lattes.

So who reinvents the firm? We do.”

This is something I talk about regularly with select friends and co-workers. A great many of us wish things were better. We see the problems, we see the waste, we see the selfishness, we see the value being sucked away. And we see our customers suffer.

Well, I have started to reinvent our organization. I’ll write about it here once I gain traction.

And if I don’t reinvent the organization or the firm, then I need to go. My path is clear: One way or the other I will reinvent!

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Are millions of people Wrong?

A comment via email from Sundar (an Indian Buddy of mine):
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My Journalist Friend

Thanks to Anton for announcing my blog on jcu92.org (Jim Parker Checks In ). Anton is one of those friends that when you haven’t seen or talked to him in many, many years, when you finally talk to him, it is as though you had been talking to him every day for the past week.
That’s always nice.