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”
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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?””
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 12; (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 12 Down and Up Downsizing is a very unpleasant topic to discuss and painful to recount so let us stop it and budge a bit on that awful subject with this chapter. Some of the terminated manage to land on their feet quickly. Some never land at all and are destroyed and may endContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 12; (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 11: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 11 Downsizing: Prospective employers: The toughest act to conquer Perhaps the most important actor in the Theatre of the Downsized is the employer you must convince to hire you. Depending upon your reaction to the Blessed Event undertaking a job search is either the first or last activity you are in the mood for.Continue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 11: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 10: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 10 Downsizing: See who your friends are As they say in times of trouble you will notice who your real friends are. Some whom you thought were your friends quickly scatter and avoid contact with a fired employee on the premise it is bad luck. Some are gloating as they feel they are inContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 10: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 9: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 9 Downsizing: A dirty hit to your family Your ego may be somewhat bruised after your firing. However, on top of that you must communicate the Blessed Event to your family. It is a difficult and often a humiliating endeavour. My teenage daughter Lexia was in shock wondering how “they” could do this toContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 9: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
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