I guess most people are dreaming of becoming a CEO someday owning a big company with lots of employees. But somehow that dream seems to be impossible specially in this kind of competitive business environment where it seems that every kind of product imaginable are already existing. And if you want to compete with other corporate giants, well it’s like you will be squashed like an insect when they stepped on you. But in this modern internet age, many became instant millionaires just having a business (or a very unique idea) and used their talents for amassing millions of dollars in the internet.
Facebook and Google are best examples of those companies. The founders of those companies have the right to call themselves CEO and it’s because they have lots of employees and billion dollar companies.
But when I stumbled across a forum, I then realized that many people have a negative reaction to those small businesses or emerging entrepreneurs that call themselves CEO. One poster started the question because he sees tons of people toss around the title CEO: [click to continue...]
I wanted to share a very nice article I read from John Chow’s ebook “Make Money Online”. Although the ebook is primarily for people interested on making money online by blogging, it also has a topic of personal development. What I’m referring to is the difference between a loser and a successful person. It is ironic that those who are afraid to fail are losers and not winners. I always thought that winners are people who never fail but on the contrary winners or successful people are those who have experience series of failures before they ever become successful. Maybe there are some who have experienced few failures and I wonder if there are those who have never experience failure, I guess they have magic. So why some people are losers? not because those people always fail, they are those who never tried to act on their dreams because they are afraid to fail.
One good example is those people who are sick and tired on their jobs and dream of having a business someday. Someday will never come unless we act on that dream. There is a big difference between a dream and a goal. A dream is only a dream without action. A goal is a dream with action. The reason why we always wish to do something and never act is because we are afraid to experience failure. Even on a game of chance like lotto, you need to buy a ticket in order to win. We cannot just wish that “someday I wish I win the lotto” but we don’t buy tickets.
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After watching the Youtube video on how those prankster contaminated the food being served, it reminded me again of the food our family eats in fast food chains. How safe they are really? how can you be sure if those in the kitchen are not putting anything on the hamburgers or fried chicken you ordered? Worst is if there is a psychopath in the kitchen. This is very alarming if you have a food business and you hired a psychologically unfit person. Yeah, you really need to screen your employees. And not only proper screening, but also proper motivation for your employees. If you treat them right, then most probably you won’t encounter much problem.
Watching the video of those two Domino’s Pizza employees makes me feel disgusted. One employee is picking his nose with a cheese strip then putting it over the pizza dough. I hope there is no booger on it. I’m not interested eating a pizza with booger as toppings. It really destroys a company brand name doing those things. I do hope Jollibee, Chowking and Greenwich Pizza employees won’t follow their example just to be a Youtube sensation.
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I got this article from Masigasig Magazine and this is about tips on how you retain good employees. I think this is not the right time to post this because of the economy. But nevertheless this topic might add something to our knowledge. I’m not sure if you will agree on the way the employer treat his employees as you read below and might raise your eyebrow because it seems very unconventional and too lax. I don’t know if this will work on any kind of industry, but since the company mentioned here is an I.T. business, it might work well if properly implemented on I.T. related businesses.
In the Orange & Bronze office, we found a bright blue bean bag tucked under one desk, two sofa beds in a corner, a big orange stuffed dog on a chair and another room where people could relax on floor mattresses and watch TV. We asked Calen Legaspt O&B’s CEO, to share his secrets to finding and keeping good employees: [click to continue...]
I’ve read an interesting story in Entrepreneur magazine about a tool steel businessman who’s business was almost brought down to it’s knees due to cheating employees, Asian financial crisis back in 1997 and his spending attitude. It’s really common sense that living in frugality will really help a business manage it’s finances well, not only in business but also in our ordinary daily living as a typical worker. But not everyone have that discipline especially if your spouse is not thrifty enough even though you did your best to become frugal. The COO of the Special Steel Products, Inc., Joseph Anthony Pardo said so himself that “although the Asian financial crisis was totally unexpected, the company would not have been as hard hit if they handled their financial well.”
Another aspect that became their major problem is the employee’s dishonesty. In 1986, when some of their former employees started selling cheap steel to their clients, claiming that they were the same as Bohler. The company lost a number of clients to the copycats who offered a cheaper yet substandard alternative. They (dishonest employees) also resorted to unethical means just to sell such as cheating the customers by substituting materials, and spreading black propaganda about their company.
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