This month's cover art of Allen Forkum's newspaper was a bit of a challenge. Having to render stone sculptures depicting aspects of automotive service, yet still with a bit of whimsy, is the kind of work that makes image-creation fascinating.
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Very interesting art! It made me read the whole article as well - it was a good read too.
http://www.automotivereport.net/FeatureStory.html
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Posted on December 2, 2010 02:02
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I'd add, "... & Why it Rarely Ever Happens in Corporate America."
I finished B-School WAY in the top tier of my class, & when I went out job hunting, I had a heck of a time on the interview circuit.
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(2) Executives who were afraid of hiring somebody who would be able to understand what they were doing wrong & identify those responsible for it.
(3) Government goldbrickers & entrenched "seniority".
I interviewed for LOADS of finance-related positions, & it got to be really disheartening to see classmates who barely graduated & had lousy resumes getting plum jobs. I ended up underemployed & underpaid, but "what you do" is more important than "what you get" (& life isn't over yet, so who knows where I'll end up).
Fast-forward a dozen years or so, & commercial banks, investment banks, & all kinds of capital-related businesses (many of which my lesser-qualified associates went to work for) are on the ropes because a bunch of corrupt idjits were at the helms of those ships. The SEC couldn't nab Bernie Madoff even when an analyst reported him half a dozen times (& people think Madoff is a big deal when government has done the same thing to the American people by a factor that is in the hundreds of thousands & shortly will be exploding).
Things didn't make sense back then. Now I get it...
...and T is glowing with schadenfreude.
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Posted on December 2, 2010 02:46
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Only one time did I ever see actual "culture" in a large corporation. That was when the Tylenol poisonings happened. The company pulled their product off the shelves and redesigned their packaging.
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