“The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.” PeopleKnowsCompanySuccessfulMediaNew YorkGiantsNew York Times Author:David Plotz
“I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.” PeopleLongTogetherCompanyFourBiggerTwentiesBarsGiantsWorking TogetherSoloDuets Author:Mark Morris
“When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.” PeopleIfsMadeCompanyOfficeMessagesBiggerCuriosityOpeningChainsGiantsSmallestDollsDwarfs Author:David Ogilvy
“Santa blows all these shipping companies away. He delivers more than 2 billion packages in just 24 hours. He does it by sleigh. He doesn't use tracking numbers and doesn't use trucks. He just uses midgets and a giant bag.” DoeUseHoursNumbersCompanyBlowBillionsChristmasGiantsBagsTruckSantaPackagesTrackingShippingMidgetSleighs Author:Craig Ferguson
“Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.” WayWholeBigsIndividualCompanyCuttingInternetCostOffersComputerCloudsAccessDataGiantsApplicationNew WaysInfrastructureComputingHardwareCloud Computing Author:Jamais Cascio
“If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.” IfsCompanyComputerChessGiantsJungleInsensitiveChainsawLogging Author:Nigel Short
“Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That's true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.” KnowsMeanPersonsWarWinningIndividualLevelsResponsibilityCompanyMilitaryBuildingSucceedAuthorityCreatingMythAll TimeManagersFirmHeatGiantsDelusionPerformersSoftwareInitiativeFormalEffectivenessManufacturingSoftware Company Author:Tom Peters
“The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.” FallCompanyClassMillionsMiddleDisasterGiantsJust OneMiddle ClassCollapseBankingHardworkingInsurance Companies Book:Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream Source: Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream