EVERYBODY’S AN ENTREPRENEUR (REALLY?)

Yes, really. I honestly believe that each of us has the ability to be an entrepreneur. After all, an entrepreneur makes the decisions that drive a business. And who doesn’t enjoy being in the driver’s seat? Actually, many of Shamrock’s best and brightest thrive on being entrepreneurs. It’s our corporate culture; it’s in our DNA.…

HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR ZIPPER?

If you’re inadvertently revealing too much of yourself because your zipper’s open, you may be in for some severe embarrassment. Now, I’m not asking you to check the zippers on your clothing (although, it’s not a bad idea!).  In this case, the zipper I’m talking about is the mouth. When I was a kid, my…

DO YOU PLAY GAMES AT WORK?

Hey, I’m not spying on what you do at work. That’s your personal, professional and private decision. What I’d like to do is share with you an article I recently read about game theory at work.   This particular Wall Street Journal article, “Latest Game Theory: Mixing Work and Play” (WSJ), says that businesses from…

HEY, WALL STREET, WAKE UP!

I noticed a good response to my last post about the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon, so I thought I’d add a bit more fuel to the fire and tell you about my feelings towards Wall Street and how the Street overlooks the needs of middle market companies, such as Shamrock. A few days ago I…

OCCUPY MY STREET

Until the Next Big Thing, the media is swamped with stories about “Occupy Wall Street”. Even the big guns, such as the Wall Street Journal‘s reporter, Douglas Schoen, who states that OWT “… comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half…

BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL

Remember when mission statements and corporate values were the big buzz words on the block? It all started in the late 1990s. Big shot management gurus adopted this theory that if chieftains of the  organization came together and developed a mission that drives a company, the company would flourish, and its people would multiply, and…