Hi, I am going to get an offer from Deloitte to be a senior consultant in their change management team. I come from another big 5, am 28 yrs old, have done consulting for 5 years, no MBA. Which salary should I aim? 110k? Thanks
I would not take a dime under $125K
Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.
Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
The Trap is a series of three films by Bafta-winning producer Adam Curtis that explains the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
It shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy.
Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously – always intent on their own advantage.
This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings.
However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, says Curtis, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
[Information Liberation Editors Note: In typical Adam Curtis fashion he spins the issues to make the establishment seem like innocent dupes. In reality society is, and has always been, the product of social engineering by cunning behavioral control specialists. The control tactics and rhetoric have changed, but the agenda is still the same.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
I saw the Trap. Curtis is quite the scholar. I'd also recommend his documentary 'The power of nightmares' about 'the war on terror.' As for our freedom, it's ultimately up to us, as I believe it is ultimately about subjective perception. Golden is right about your name, though….
Tips are getting changed before it goes to payroll. Management is actually changing the amount of tips employees are reporting. So to the accountant it looks like this is what the employees actually reported.
if they have documentation that shows you under reported then they are to report the correct amount.
if management is doing this to circumvent their responsibility to make up the difference due to a tip credit then this is illegal.
you can not legally under report your tips and it is to your advantage to report accurately. every dollar that is taken from your check for social security and medicare is matched evenly by the employer failing to properly report is the same as throwing those employer contributions away. failing to report tips will lower any future benefit you will be entitled to if you are disabled and when you retire.
And also,imagine if a flood or an earthquake struck a high school. What action plan could be put in place for such an occurrence?
I would recomend that the USA have a better government (F.E.M.A.) policy with more prepairdness and immediate action after any disaster, natural or man made.
We're looking to illustrate the concept of "change management" and I was just wondering if there was something I missed … ?
Let's see…things that change….
-operations
-policies
-guidelines/regulations
-employee attitudes
-company morale
-company culture
Since diversity is viewed differently than it was 30 years ago how has it changed management in the business world?
management theory from the past used to focus on "tricks of the trade", "winning philosophy", "motivating large groups".
Now it is about teaching the manager to learn from the individual how THEY are best motivated. We are no longer so concerned about one-size-fits all solutions. We are focused on THE INDIVIDUAL and how they are part of an integrated and highly functioning team.
Diversity is recognized as a key element in the development of a team. Each person brings unique talents, skills and desires to the team. Those traits can be honed, enhanced and used by the team… So long as they are not ignored.
Diversity is USUALLY defined as a category… Racial… Sex… Religion… And, it is really not about categories at all.. It is about THE INDIVIDUAL, and how they interact in a group.
I am starting my own business as a Business Advisor. I am slso planning on contaction financial institutions for training their officers involved with change management. I have over twenty years experience in the banking industrials.
What books would you suggest that I read for starting a consulting business. My focus will be doing seminars and workshops on topics such as: Preparing and following a business plan; How to prepare to ask for money to help your busniess grow from a Bank; Pit falls starting your business, and pit falls to avoid when your business finally takes off, etc.
I have information that will assist you. I've created a reading list of consulting books on Amazon. You may also join the Yahoo! Group The Consulting Institute. I started the group and it has information you can download and review. From that site, you can download newsletters and other documents that may help you in your practice building. You can also google my name, Elwanda Bennett - to see what other data you can gather. Success to you in your practice development; we need qualified people like yourself to help others as they build their businesses.
I have been at my present job for nearly 1 year. I am contracted to work 35 hours a week. Since I started I have been working 3 12hour shifts per week. The same as all the other full time staff. The management have brought out a new shift system. I have now got to work a new shift pattern that does not suit my need. None of the staff were consulted over the shifts changing and we’ve only been give 2 weeks notice. Is there anything we can do?
We are in Britain
You have a right to 3 months notice of any major change in your contract of employment
* KINDERGARTEN TEACHER: To get to the other side.
* PLATO: For the greater good.
* ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.
* KARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability.
* TIMOTHY LEARY: Because that’s the only trip the establishment would let it take.
* SADDAM HUSSEIN: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.
* JACK NICHOLSON: ’cause it f___ing wanted to. That’s the f___ing reason.
* RONALD REAGAN: I forget.
* CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
* HIPPOCRATES: Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas.
* ANDERSEN CONSULTANT: Deregulation of the chicken’s side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), Andersen helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken’s people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Anderson consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park-like setting, enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken’s mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful.
* LOUIS FARRAKHAN: The road, you see, represents the black man. The chicken ‘crossed’ the black man in order to trample him and keep him down.
* MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives being called into question.
* MOSES: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the chicken, “Thou shalt cross the road.” And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.
* FOX MULDER: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it?
* RICHARD M. NIXON: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road.
* MACHIAVELLI: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.
* JERRY SEINFELD: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn’t anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway?”
* FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
* BILL GATES: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook.
* BILL CLINTON: I’m going to say something important. And I’ll say it again to make sure you understand. I did not have sexual relations with that chicken. I did not.
* GEORGE W. BUSH (2): We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us. There is no middle ground here.
* OLIVER STONE: The question is not, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” Rather, it is, “Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?”
* DARWIN: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads.
* EINSTEIN: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
* BUDDHA: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature.
* RALPH WALDO EMERSON: The chicken did not cross the road .. it transcended it.
* ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die. In the rain.
* NEW SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICIAN: It is the Apartheid regime which made the chicken cross the road when the chicken did not want to cross the road, the chicken is oppressed and the only way to free the chicken is for the whites to pay restitution for oppressing the chicken and investigate police involvement in the death of chickens. It is racist to imply that chickens are involved in any crimes and corruption.
* OLD SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICIAN: It is our belief that chickens should be allowed to cross roads in their own areas with their own roads. If they wish to cross roads in other areas they must carry a pass and will be subject to arrest if they dont. We would like to state categorically that meddling in our affairs by any persons will not be tolerated and we will arrest and detain anybody for a period of 90 days without trail so that these allegations can be investigated.
* COSATU: To steal a job from a decent, hardworking, South African.
* RAY MACAULEY: Because the chicken was gay! Isn’t it obvious? Can’t you people see the plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the “other side.” That’s what “they” call it, “the other side.” Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And, if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like “the other side.” That chicken should not be free to cross the road. It’s as plain and simple as that.
* DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I’ve not been told!
* DR NELSON MANDELA: Never again, will the chicken be questioned for crossing the road. This is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
* GRANDPA SIMPSON: In my day, we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.
* BISHOP TUTU: We need a society where people will learn to forgive all the chickens that crossed the road. However, forgiveness will be granted to chickens that convince the nation that their reasons for crossing the road were politically motivated
* PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS: The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken crossed the “black man” in order to trample him and keep him down.
* ROBERT MUGABE: For all of these years the road has been owned by the white farmers, the poor underpriveleged chicken has waited too long for that road to be given to him and now he is crossing it in force with his fellow war veteran chickens. We intend taking over this road and giving it to the roadless chickens so that they can cross it without fear of retribution from Britain who promised money to institute road reform. We will not stop until all roadless chickens have roads to cross and the freedom to cross them. We will also return to the Socialist ideal of a road so that all chickens who live in our country can benefit from the grand ideals which I have decided upon.
* ISAAC NEWTON: Any chicken in the universe shall always cross a road perpendicularly to the side of the road, and in an infinitely long straight line at uniform speed, unless the chicken stops due to an unbalanced reactive force in the opposite direction of the chicken’s motion
* HEISENBERG: No one will ever know for sure whether he actually got to the other side
* SNOOPY: It was a dark, stormy night. Somewhere in the rain, a chicken crossed a road
* JULIE ANDREWS: Chick, a cheer, a female cheer …
* MOHAMMED ALDOURI (Iraq Ambassador): The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We don’t even have a chicken.
* COLONEL SANDERS: I missed one?
Lmfao! Great job, love the idea!
