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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
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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I must say I am a little frightened by the title of this book The God Part of the Brain by Matthew Alper that a bright friend of mine lent me. He lent it to me two months ago - and yet it just sits there, continually staring at me.
Interestingly, I am currently engrossed in yet […]
I’ll not be posting anything in the near future…busy with a project and the babies. Try back in January ‘07.
In the mean time, visit the Parker Family blog where I will be posting pictures every couple of weeks.
If you have any interest at all in the issue of flag burning, please read this post: I wish I knew what I know now, when I was younger by Tony Alva.
He says what I would say if I were so eloquent.
All machines are human.
Some would question whether there is anything human about a robotic welder on the factory floor, or a stamping machine that stamps out quarter panels for a new car, or a 1000 node grid computer, or even a bolt.
Let’s consider the humanity of the bolt. This is a wonderful piece of technology […]
As a little girl, my grandmother rode a horse drawn wagon to the church on Sunday’s in the early 1920’s. Today, at 94, she has a machine that keeps her heart beating reliably and is about to fly via jetliner across the country in a matter of hours to visit children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
That’s a […]
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