From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey
With only a moment's thought, and only a few words, how do you describe
the
value that your role adds to the organization? How do you justify your
own
On 12/15/2011 10:56 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking with
some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert
cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical corporations or
typical
You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking
with
some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert
cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical corporations
or
typical organizations, etc. Somebody uses a term like overhead
On 12/16/2011 07:46 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 12/15/2011 10:56 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking with
some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert
cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies
On 12/16/2011 09:44 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
So the biggest thing you need to do IMHO is not let people conflate
overhead with non-essential.
Just to beat this horse a little more: overhead is a technical term
for accountants; non-essential is a judgment call about value to the
company and
On 12/15/2011 10:56 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
With only a moment's thought, and only a few words, how do you describe the
value that your role adds to the organization? How do you justify your own
existence, casually, when talking to a CFO or somebody in a social
situation?
I'm the guy who
You wrote:
Justify your existence
Over the years, I've learned that the answer to this question is: you can't.
If someone asks it in those words or similar, then if they had their druthers
they'd call Amazon EC2 or some place in Bangalore and say, I'll have two of
those, how much do they cost?
On 12/16/2011 12:41 AM, Jack Coats wrote:
Here are a few personal truisms about 'overhead'.
A long time ago, I found that you are 'overhead' if you are not in the
'Business of the Business'.
If you a banker or teller you are in the banking business, if you are
in IT, or marketing, or
hi
On 12/16/2011 11:13 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
Someone whose primary goal is blame avoidance is someone I would run
away from as fast as I could. They aren't going to go anywhere, and if
they somehow do manage to climb the corporate ladder in spite of their
pile of failures, it won't be in a
On 12/16/2011 11:26 AM, john saylor wrote:
while i am sometimes delighted by someone taking unexpected altruistic
action [even just 'telling the truth'], i am rarely disappointed when i
expect people to act in the most selfishly destructive manner possible.
especially among the 'powerful' in
You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking with
some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert
cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical corporations or
typical organizations, etc. Somebody uses a term like overhead or
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.comwrote:
You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking
with
some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert
cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical
Here are a few personal truisms about 'overhead'.
A long time ago, I found that you are 'overhead' if you are not in the
'Business of the Business'.
If you are in healthcare doctor or a nurse, you are in the business,
if you are mopping the floors in a hospital, doing IT, doing
accounting, you
On 12/15/2011 10:56 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking with
some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert
cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical corporations or
typical
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