Comments on Execupundit.com: Work as Fun and Games

I wish more CEOs would read these comments. I ofte...

2007-09-14T21:20:00.000-07:00

I wish more CEOs would read these comments. I often suspect that no idea is so wacko that it cannot be sold to at least several Fortune 500 CEOs.

Amen to Michael Wade's comment about "fun that can...

2007-09-14T16:26:00.000-07:00

Amen to Michael Wade's comment about "fun that can come through kind and competent management."

I confess I'd never thought of it that way before,...

2007-09-14T13:31:00.000-07:00

I confess I'd never thought of it that way before, Michael, but I think you're on to something. It's either the boomers being "cool" and "hip" or the re-incarnation of those dot-bomb companies whose employees got to ride to the unemployment office on their Segways.

Rather than having compulsory "fun" programs, it w...

2007-09-13T19:32:00.000-07:00

Rather than having compulsory "fun" programs, it would be wise for employers to discover the fun that can come through kind and competent management. I confess that some of these programs strike me as the equivalent of some aging boomer using some new slang in order to show some version of coolness.

Let's see, that's AstraZeneca, frolicking away in ...

2007-09-13T12:33:00.000-07:00

Let's see, that's AstraZeneca, frolicking away in the office while the stock price continues its downward slide. You need all that plastic joy to keep from thinking about the fact that one out of ten of your co-workers is being laid off.

What? Has the whole world become an episode of "T...

2007-09-13T06:06:00.000-07:00

What? Has the whole world become an episode of "The Office?"

If my CEO did something like that, we'd put him away for a nice long vacation.