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Which makes me wonder how much faster we'd be seeing progress in the world if companies were better managed.
by epicureanideal 7y ago
Which makes me wonder how much faster we'd be seeing progress in the world if companies were better managed.
- karatestomp 7y agoI suspect we were far too quick to get rid of secretaries as actual job-performing useful people rather than just status-signaling living perks. Also I think much of our workforce is wildly over-qualified and over-educated for what they actually do. I suspect there are more people than ever in the proverbial "mail room" that are plenty capable of rising to CEO or President of a region or division and doing a fine job without taking time and money to qualify for then attain an MBA at a top school, but we just don't really do that anymore. 500 people with the education and smarts, given a tiny amount of coaching, to do jobs two notches up the "ladder" for every such position that exists, but several HBS grads applied so we're taking one of them anyway.
- HeyLaughingBoy 7y agoI agree completely. I miss having a Department Administrative Assistant who was expert at the things I shouldn't need to be expert at. Like "I need to go to San Francisco next month; please take care of my travel arrangements." Or, "how do you use this Excel feature I never heard of and will never need to use again?" Our AA saved us countless thousands of hours each year. She was worth her weight in platinum.