Category: Satire
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Term Limits
We at the International College of Businessry and Managering, as a policy, practice and peccadillo, express no political views. But as the world’s leading experts in organizational structure optimization we have recently completed an in-depth analysis and determined that every political party across the globe is, as one our Senior Fellows put it, “full of… Read more
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Cultural Sensitivity
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you are aware “Cultural Sensitivity” is a hot topic in the business world. Perhaps you’ve even had to attend classes, or in the COVID world of 2020, 2021 and beyond, more likely watched a video performed by the Corporate Compliance Playhouse Players. While those training classes serve… Read more
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Bad Santa meets Tony Robbins
Once again holiday time is here and I have to admit that after a few gulps my glass of eggnog is now only half full. It’s also spiked with a little “holiday cheer”. Here at ICBM, we have been expecting new accounting software which is now 3 months late to arrive. Meant to streamline our… Read more
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The Kum-By-Yah Factory – Part 1
In answering the question “how do we best cultivate healthy, productive employees?” – it turns out science answered this question for us nearly 80 years ago. Dust off your psychology textbook and open your eyes. On the topic of employee motivation, Abraham Maslow has something important to say, and I suggest you listen closely. Of… Read more
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The Kum-By-Yah Factory – Part 2
Ok – lets recap. Mazlow’s hierarchy can be a useful and didactic tool for helping us reach our personal psychological potential. For personal growth, the pyramid has been a great success. Climb away. Applying the pyramid to business however has yielded a different set of results. In applying it to business: Mazlow tried. Mazlow failed.… Read more
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Conflict of Interest
Negotiating can be the scariest part of a manager’s job. Because it is a tool used infrequently, it rarely gets enough time at the business end of a grinding wheel. But properly honed, the skill of negotiating can effortlessly be sharpened into a sword, plowshare, or dagger. By some, the art of negotiation has been… Read more
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P = NP or The Battle of the Sexes
Actor Rex Harrison crooned in the 1964 movie My Fair Lady “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” Today we would like to discuss the various reasons why they aren’t, and more importantly, why as a manager you wouldn’t want them to be. Before delving deeper into the topic of gender differences as… Read more
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What Kind Manager are You?
The post-holiday season has a tendency to bring about a bad case of the “blahs” to almost everyone, so each spring the Frederickson clan engages in a spirit raising family tradition: we gather the great grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren and maybe even a few “great-grandchildren” on loan from the local orphanage. We build a fire,… Read more
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Macro-Micro-Nano
I previous we have discussed macro-meetingnomics (the study of the larger meet-market) and micro-meetingnomics (covering the meet-market on a more individual level). What separates meeting-nomics from the more traditional dismal science of economics, other than better parties and a restraining order, is the the detail in which meeting-nomics can delve. Traditional economics is hamstrung by… Read more
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Alumni Mailbag – Volume 1
At the International College of Businessry and Managering we like to keep in touch with our alumni and like to share our correspondence when we feel it will be helpful, instructive or inspiring to others. Here is an example that we believe is all three. Dear ICBM: I recently terminated my employment by a large… Read more