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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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Dear AttentionGrab Blog,
Please pardon my absence. But don’t get me wrong, I love having this blog. I understand and accept that you have lofty ambitions for me. Those are ambitions which I share and embrace.
I’ve just been busy with life.
jim
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