Image via Wikipedia It’s a hard situation when you are laid off. But you should understand that a company is at the end of the day a business. Run by people like you and me. Even if you started your own business you would know the pangs of giving employment and running a business. It’s tough. Think Positive When you are in a situation of unemployment, you actually have more options that you can think of. If you are a positive thinker you would know that the world is full of opportunities. You should not restrict yourself to one kind of employment. Rather, you should … [Read more...]
Reducing Costs – Try To Do Something More Than Making Tall Announcements
Image via Wikipedia It would have been wonderful if reducing costs simply involved announcing which costs are wasteful and which costs are essential. The irony is that an announcement that one shall no longer tolerate wasteful costs immediately results in all existing costs becoming very essential and important. People find it so difficult to reduce costs that they prefer changing the benchmark and presuming that certain costs are important when they are, in reality, wasteful. As an employer, making bombastic statements and hoping that employees shall take care of the rest is … [Read more...]