Chapter 22 Twelve tips on how to get ahead at largecorp 1. Never complain or criticize Be very careful about criticizing or complaining about largecorp in a public forum whether it be in the workplace or social media. This may constitute a valid reason for your termination. To the world you will communicate that largecorpContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management: Chapter 22 Twelve Tips for getting ahead at largecorp”
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Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 21 Particularly annoying habits of largecorps controlled by Yankees
Chapter 21 Particularly annoying habits of largecorps controlled by Yankees A Sense of Brutalism: Canadian capitalism has a nasty side to it but at least there has been a touch of paternalism and a tiny sense of caring for employees. Largecorps in Canada that are controlled by Yankees really have no pretense of paternalism andContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 21 Particularly annoying habits of largecorps controlled by Yankees”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 20 Where have all the old people gone?
Chapter 20 So where have all the old people gone? If I had decided to eat out for lunch when working at Up Up and Away Canada in Toronto I frequently walked over to the food court at First Canadian Place because it had so much natural light. I am no fan of bunkers withContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 20 Where have all the old people gone?”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 19 The over 60 white man club and long live global inclusion and the hypocrisy of HR
Chapter 19 The Over 60 White Man Club and long live global inclusion and the hypocrisy of HR I have mentioned in a previous chapter some of the strange productivity schemes invented or pirated by the CRAP Human Resources Department to increase productivity. Up Up and Away management in New York was burbling like aContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 19 The over 60 white man club and long live global inclusion and the hypocrisy of HR”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 18 An eager beaver fool
Chapter 18 The eager beaver fool When I joined Up Up and Away Canada it was new to the Canadian marketplace as an investment manager. When you join a new player in the market your enthusiasm can be extremely high particularly when you start winning business in a significant and impressive way. Up Up andContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 18 An eager beaver fool”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International; Chapter 17 Double trouble at Up Up and Away Investment Management International
Chapter 17 Double trouble at Up Up and Away Investment Management International I recall at CRAP management decisions were generally implemented and executed quickly. There was only one set of Canadian management to deal with. However, at Up Up and Away there was a head office in the United States superimposed above Canadian management. TheContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International; Chapter 17 Double trouble at Up Up and Away Investment Management International”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 16 A lucky jump into Up Up and Away Investment Management International
Chapter 16 A lucky jump into Up Up and Away Investment Management International It is so remarkably interesting just how much fate and luck play a part in landing a new job. Sure, you follow all the same old advice as to networking, resumé writing and how to conduct yourself at an interview. But youContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 16 A lucky jump into Up Up and Away Investment Management International”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International : Chapter 15 Is there anything good at all about largecorp?
Chapter 15 Is there anything good at all about largecorp? I think you would agree that I have painted a bleak picture of largecorp. It is fuelled by greed through obscene executive compensation. This involves fleecing shareholders and exploiting employees to the point of burning and spitting them out. Through the business schools of management,Continue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International : Chapter 15 Is there anything good at all about largecorp?”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 14 Welcome to the post-industrial revolution
Chapter 14 Welcome to the post-industrial revolution Somewhere in your education you must have encountered those terrible stories of poor British children toiling in coal mines during the British Industrial Revolution subsisting in workhouses under horrific conditions. Poor dirty ragamuffins working for treacherous capitalists dying by the dozens in rockslides or in a myriad ofContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 14 Welcome to the post-industrial revolution”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 13: “So how does largecorp hang on?”
Chapter 13 So how does largecorp hang on? Largecorp is still out there despite a stream of Millennials and burnt-out Boomers threatening so many of its dear values. The Millennials have seen many of their parents burnt out and chewed up by largecorp. It is tempting to say they are spoilt and from an “entitlement”Continue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 13: “So how does largecorp hang on?””
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