Fellow RBC-3POs': Please Help Me In My Quest For Piles of Bunk!

Can you, my fellow RBC-3POs', please help me find some more piles of bunk?

I'm working on a book that I'll probably never finish (well, I'm sure I will but the question is if anyone would ever read it!) and it's about how most schools of mgmt theory, kaizen initiatives, and processes that promise to take us from "Good to Great" are really a pile of bunk sold my companies looking to make a few $$$ off of professionals looking for a magic bullet to either save or enhance their careers! :P

C'mon - You gotta know there's a chapter on Talent Acquisition and then Org Develoopment, too! What kinda' guy would I be if I didn't include our wacky world, too?!?

So, I was wondering if any of you (yes, you :) ) could help me uncover piles of bunk - ridiculous ways of thinking likely developed during the Henry Ford era, that we still embrace today!

(Yeah, I know a few . . . but every once in a while, I cross by a pile of bunk that I didn't see to be a pile of bunk. My bunk-dar needs refinement!)

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Letourneau on July 17, 2008 at 11:07am

Thanks, Rayanne :) I always knew you were not only a bunk-finder, too (a bunk-aneer), but that you're not afraid to call out a pile of bunk when you see it :)

Talk to you soon.

P.S. Up, up, and away to find new candidates! (with my not-so-much candidate cape flapping in the wind . . . )

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Permalink Reply by Slouch on July 17, 2008 at 11:10am

capes are not good to have. did you see the incredibles?

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Letourneau on July 17, 2008 at 11:21am

I haven't - please help. you mean my captain-save-a-candidate super-identity is compromised by the cape? :)

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Permalink Reply by Slouch on July 17, 2008 at 11:35am

if you are trying to chase down a plane, your cape may get sucked into the engine and then you have issues

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Letourneau on July 17, 2008 at 11:36am

wow, that's deep, man. :)

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Letourneau on July 17, 2008 at 4:53pm

Jenn, how about how the point of M&A activity being to 'create operating synergies' or 'grow market share' . . .

when that rarely ever happens?

Sure two little monkeys can come together to form one large, slow-moving, bloated 800-lb. Gorilla . . but that normally creates more problems than before!

. . . but hey, M&A activity sure boosts stock price for the acquirer in the short-term . . . and then people are surprised when C-level execs exercise their options? . . . :)