Jogobiz—The Case of the Missing Sales Rep

I used to work for a drug store chain and was in charge of ordering sodas. Once a week, a rep from each of the major companies would show up, check our inventory, ask if we had any sales coming up, place an order, and then a day or so later a truck would appear

Exploiting Other People’s Pain and Suffering

“Well, part of me says, ‘I don’t care.’  This is a moral issue.  If you have people working for you who cannot make enough money to live on, you don’t have much of a business plan.  Your business is really exploiting other people’s pain and suffering.” Writer and columnist Barbara Ehrenreich, quoted in Time magazine

“If you’ve chosen personnel well …”

“Management is about delegating as much as possible. Give people a task and don’t look over their shoulder. If you’ve chosen personnel well, that will work.” —David Gilmour, serial entrepreneur and founder of Fiji WaterMonocle magazine, September 2013 issue