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I'd agree there are some success stories in Big Business

Virgin comes to mind...treat the employess as valuable assets and respect and they will repay you ten fold...As nutty as Branson appears he does seem to have that special touch with his employees

Its the minority of bad apples that seem to skip from firm to firm after a disasterous result that give the rest of society the view that Big Business is
all unethical

A recent case highlighted how silly big business can be
A small firm in Australia set up shop 2 years before the big business began overseas

They had similar names so the big business asked the small to cease using the name.It declined saying they were in different industries and the names were't exactly the same

The Big Business still went ahead with legal action which it won due to the small business running out of money.legal Aid weren't interested due to their own financial restraints

So a small thriving business was destroyed for no apparent reason other than a patented name.They weren't even competitors in the same industry
Beggars belief

It just highlights how inadequate the legal system really is when a clear wrong can be allowed to stand

Still as you say no good burying your head in the sand after you've lost everything.A positive can do attitude will take you far
I'd bet the owner of the defunct small business is now working for somebody else...I wouldn't blame them if they were

cheers
B....OZ

The big craze for companies is to reinvent themselves, preferably using ersatz Latin or Greek names. The Post Office here became Consignia for a while, until someone realised that throwing lots of money at pony-tailed, drug-snorting marketing types probably also involves leaving reality behind.

I wish I knew exactly what made these "marketing" types believe they know anything about anything and, more to the point, how I can speak fluent bullshit so that gullible executives will throw money at me as well.

"Ah, yes, BP. Problems with your corporate image. In future, you should call yourself Bollocksia."

I bet the Golgafrinchian ark full of useless people in The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe had millions of marketing consultants on board.

Marketing & Sales the saviour of the I hate to study crowd

I've been through about 20 sales courses and can honestly say learnt it all in the first and every one after was the same message in a different format

Enjoyed the days and weeks off immensely...all paid for by the employer was even better...those training gurus charge like wounded bulls

cheers
B....OZ

Apparently there is now a website where you plug in your 'corporate manifesto', and out comes a bullshit name like 'Accentupuncture' or 'Megalomoronia'.
And it's FREE............