Labor, Immigration, Foreign workers

The End of Management
Corporate bureaucracy is becoming obsolete. Why managers should act like venture capitalists



Business guru Peter Drucker called management "the most important innovation of the 20th century." It was well-justified praise. Techniques for running large corporations, pioneered by men like Alfred Sloan of General Motors and refined at a bevy of elite business schools, helped fuel a century of unprecedented global prosperity.

But can this great 20th century innovation survive and thrive in the 21st? Evidence suggests: Probably not. "Modern" management is nearing its existential moment.

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In recent years, however, most of the greatest management stories have been not triumphs of the corporation, but triumphs over the corporation.

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The best corporate managers have become, in a sense, enemies of the corporation.

The reasons for this are clear enough. Corporations are bureaucracies and managers are bureaucrats. Their fundamental tendency is toward self-perpetuation. They are, almost by definition, resistant to change. They were designed and tasked, not with reinforcing market forces, but with supplanting and even resisting the market.

Yet in today's world, gale-like market forces—rapid globalization, accelerating innovation, relentless competition—have intensified what economist Joseph Schumpeter called the forces of "creative destruction." Decades-old institutions like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns now can disappear overnight, while new ones like Google and Twitter can spring up from nowhere. A popular video circulating the Internet captures the geometric nature of these trends, noting that it took radio 38 years and television 13 years to reach audiences of 50 million people, while it took the Internet only four years, the iPod three years and Facebook two years to do the same. It's no surprise that fewer than 100 of the companies in the S&P 500 stock index were around when that index started in 1957.

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The new model will have to be more like the marketplace, and less like corporations of the past. It will need to be flexible, agile, able to quickly adjust to market developments, and ruthless in reallocating resources to new opportunities.

Resource allocation will be one of the biggest challenges. The beauty of markets is that, over time, they tend to ensure that both people and money end up employed in the highest-value enterprises. In corporations, decisions about allocating resources are made by people with a vested interest in the status quo. "The single biggest reason companies fail," says Mr. Hamel, "is that they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be."

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Change, innovation, adaptability, all have to become orders of the day.

Can the 20th-century corporation evolve into this new, 21st-century organization? It won't be easy. The "innovator's dilemma" applies to management, as well as technology. But the time has come to find out. The old methods won't last much longer.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704476104575439723695579664.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_RIGHTInDepthCarousel_1


The US seems to lag behind in all of the crucial areas: change, innovation and adaptability. The 21st century will prove the US is no longer on top.

a lot of usa innovations get shipped out for nation building..negating the chance to further enhance what they have

Soldiers Arrive at Arizona-Mexico Border: Does This Deter Illegal Immigration?

The Obama Administration's push to strengthen border security begins this week with the arrival of 30 Army National Guard soldiers at the Arizona - Mexico border.

Over 500 additional troops will eventually be stationed at the border. More troops will be sent each Monday until the border is fully staffed by October, a National Guard spokesman told USA Today.

The deployment of the National Guardsmen has been criticized by the president's political opponents as sluggish.

President Obama authorized federal funding for the deployment of the guardsmen back in May, and it was announced in July that it would begin on August 1.

"When they came out and told us they were going to send the 524 National Guard troops to our border, everybody assumed we would have 524 starting in August," said Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/troops-arrive-arizona-mexico-border-obama-border-security/story?id=11513145

Are these troops REALLY there for immigration purposes? Why the 30 day delay? Seems odd to me.

S Korea to scan fingerprints of suspicious foreign visitors

Officials from the Ministry of Justice present a fingerprint checking system at the Incheon International Airport in Incheon, west of Seoul, capital of South Korea, on Aug. 30, 2010. The Ministry of Justice of South Korea decided to start a gradual implementation of fingerprint checking system for foreigners entering South Korea from Sept. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/Park Jin-hee)

South Korea will begin to operate fingerprint scanning systems next month to prevent the illegal entrance of foreign nationals with fake identification, as part of its efforts to bolster security measures ahead of the G20 Seoul Summit in November, the Justice Ministry said Monday.

The Ministry of Justice has set up a total of 67 fingerprint readers and face recognition devices at 22 airports and ports across the nation, which will start working on Tuesday.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7122530.html

they probably have iris scanners already anyway..the grip tightens

Top brands fret about Cambodia garment industry unrest
(AFP) – 4 hours ago

PHNOM PENH — Clothing brands Adidas, Gap, H&M and Levi's expressed "great concern" at recent unrest in the Cambodian garment industry, as talks between unions and manufacturers kicked off on Monday.

Tens of thousands of textile workers staged a four-day walkout earlier this month to demand higher wages -- the latest bout of industrial action in Asia.

In a letter sent to unions and the Garment Manufacturers' Association in Cambodia (GMAC) on Friday and seen by AFP on Monday, the major foreign buyers said they had been closely following the recent developments in the industry.

"It is now with great concern that we watch the direction the process is taking," they wrote.

The letter -- which was also signed by The Walt Disney Company -- urged both sides to find a "long-term solution" and called for "mature industrial relations".

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jjALt9EWso0Cc__Rj4IjMGydL-4w

The letter -- which was also signed by The Walt Disney Company

The long term solution is to give them pay raises or revaluate their respective currencies..

wont be no pay rises!

RV the currency then..LOL

Waiting for ‘Superman’: Are Teachers the Problem?

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Waiting for ‘Superman’, Davis Guggenheim’s edifying and heartbreaking new documentary, says that our future depends on good teachers — and that the coddling of bad teachers by their powerful unions virtually insures mediocrity, at best, in both teachers and the students in their care. The movie’s major villains are the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, and the American Federation of Teachers. Posed against them are the film’s heroes: Canada, whose Harlem Children’s Zone schools give kids an intense, comprehensive intellectual and social education, and Michelle Rhee, another Harvard grad who as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system enacted stringent reforms, including firing many principals she thought were substandard. Canada is like the gifted proselytizer whose sells a great idea, and Rhee like the tough sheriff brought in to clean up a bad town.

Guggenheim, who won an Oscar for the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth, might not have made his new film if, while taking his own children to their private school in Los Angeles each morning, he hadn’t had to drive past several public schools that he and his wife had decided wouldn’t suitably prepare their kids. What he found in his two years of researching Waiting for ‘Superman’ (with his co-producer Lesley Chilcott) was that a lot of schools aren’t right for any kids — neither the dull ones who need gentle prods to move competently from K to 12, nor the underprivileged bright ones who could be the Geoffrey Canadas of the future, if only a good charter school had enough slots to accept them all.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2021951,00.html#ixzz10ps58Gpz

note…seems to be a “movie” the coincides with every news story. Facebook movie “The Social Network, Wallstreet, Waiting for Superman, etc…
Are the hens so brainwashed that now it only takes a movie to influence them?…sad!

the movies tell us everything..if we can see it

99ers Waiting for Tier V Unemployment Extension May Benefit From Foreclosure Moratorium

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The only silver lining in all of this is for the families that were facing down foreclosure, in particular the 99ers who have no income with which to deal with the sudden loss of their homes. Because of the various moratoriums in place both by lender and in some cases by state, many families are going to be able to stay in their ‘troubled assets’ for an indeterminable period of time. Should our leaders ever actually deign to listen to the voices of the People, perhaps by the time the foreclosures are back in swing, the Tier 5 unemployment extension will be there to rescue the 99ers’ houses yet again.
http://all247news.com/99ers-waiting-for-tier-v-unemployment-extension-may-benefit-from-foreclosure-moratorium/6438/

hmmm…unemployment benefits in disguise?

The race to the 2012 Seat in White House has already begun..

chelsea, sarah, arnold, petraeus..what a conga line of assholes

Qatar poised to boost up intake of foreign workers

Gas-rich gulf kingdom of Qatar appears poised to boost up its intake of foreign workers in an anticipated construction boom to prepare for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, in what could come as a boon to Indian migrants.

"A huge demand of foreign workers, mainly labourers in the construction sector is expected as Qatar prepares for the global event," the Arabic Al Sharq daily reported yesterday.

India is the biggest source of labour in Qatar and a large number of businesses in the country are owned or run by Indians.

The report said the labour ministry has contacted public sector companies for their recruitment plans and other programmes in the next five years.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/Qatar-poised-to-boost-up-intake-of-foreign-workers/articleshow/7059228.cms