True to its core
http://digiday.com/agencies/inside-agency-mid-level-talent-crunch-not-just-money-issue/
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Saturday, March 26, 2016
People don’t leave jobs; they leave managers.
Just a reminder
http://www.businessinsider.com/9-things-managers-do-that-make-good-employees-quit-2016-3?IR=T&r=US&IR=T
http://www.businessinsider.com/9-things-managers-do-that-make-good-employees-quit-2016-3?IR=T&r=US&IR=T
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Not all the counts, can be counted
From WPP annual report
Year 2000
“Quantification brings credibility. But figures and tables can deceive,
and numbers construct their own realities. What can be measured
and manipulated statistically is then not only seen as real; it comes
to be seen as the only or the whole reality.” And Chambers summed
it all up like this:
“Economists have come to feel
What can’t be measured isn’t real.
The truth is always an amount –
Count numbers; only numbers count.”
Coming to feel that only numbers count is seductive. Numbers seem
so safe and scientific. Numbers protect us from making subjective
judgments that may be open to challenge. Numbers are like security
blankets. But in our heart of hearts, we already know that not
everything that matters can be quantified: so we look for ways to
measure the immeasurable."
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Year 1999
“It is, of course, an intensely personal business and an intensely creative business. Our many clients come to us for the brains and inventiveness of our people. Across all the disciplines, around the world, project by project, each assignment is individually undertaken and each solution painstakingly made-to-measure. And when all the hundreds of thousands of such assignments are totalled up, and expressed as they must be in monetary terms, they deliver the numbers reported here. But numbers alone, however good in themselves, only poorly express the creativity, the applied discipline and the infinite diversity that make up your company. So we would ask you now, as share owners, to look behind those numbers; to remember their origin; to recognise the 39,000 people who work for WPP companies and associates around the world; and to join us in respect and admiration for their talent and gratitude for their dedication. We hope they enjoyed themselves. It was an excellent year: and not just in the ways that can be measured.”
Year 2000
“Quantification brings credibility. But figures and tables can deceive,
and numbers construct their own realities. What can be measured
and manipulated statistically is then not only seen as real; it comes
to be seen as the only or the whole reality.” And Chambers summed
it all up like this:
“Economists have come to feel
What can’t be measured isn’t real.
The truth is always an amount –
Count numbers; only numbers count.”
Coming to feel that only numbers count is seductive. Numbers seem
so safe and scientific. Numbers protect us from making subjective
judgments that may be open to challenge. Numbers are like security
blankets. But in our heart of hearts, we already know that not
everything that matters can be quantified: so we look for ways to
measure the immeasurable."
---
Year 1999
“It is, of course, an intensely personal business and an intensely creative business. Our many clients come to us for the brains and inventiveness of our people. Across all the disciplines, around the world, project by project, each assignment is individually undertaken and each solution painstakingly made-to-measure. And when all the hundreds of thousands of such assignments are totalled up, and expressed as they must be in monetary terms, they deliver the numbers reported here. But numbers alone, however good in themselves, only poorly express the creativity, the applied discipline and the infinite diversity that make up your company. So we would ask you now, as share owners, to look behind those numbers; to remember their origin; to recognise the 39,000 people who work for WPP companies and associates around the world; and to join us in respect and admiration for their talent and gratitude for their dedication. We hope they enjoyed themselves. It was an excellent year: and not just in the ways that can be measured.”
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