Helen E. Pastorino

Organizational Charts

April 11, 2012 at 3:04PM

In his blog, Seth Godin recently referenced Manu Cornet’s blog Bonkers in which Cornet illustrated organizational charts for six high profile companies.  Relative to what I know about each of these organizations, I found Cornet’s humorous view of each to be startlingly accurate.    
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Twitter

March 05, 2012 at 11:03PM

After years of dismissing it as a forum for sharing updates about common events such as exceptional sandwiches consumed for lunch, I now consider Twitter as a legitimate and valuable social marketing business tool. My decision to reconsider the value of Twitter results from persuasive arguments brought by several trusted and respected advisors evidencing increasingly [...]
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True Vision is 360 Degrees … continued

February 13, 2012 at 4:02PM

Just one cognitive ability distinguished star performers from average: pattern recognition, ‘the big picture’ thinking that allows leaders to pick out meaningful trends from a welter of information around them and to think strategically far into the future. —Daniel Goleman. Perhaps an ethical recovery is integral to an economic recovery. “Business as usual” only exists [...]
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