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Pizza and Chopsticks

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Yesterday, a friend was laughing at me because I was eating my pizza with a fork and a knife.  For the record, I usually only use them when my pizza is too hot to hold with my bare hands.  We started to talk about pizza eating habits, and she started talking about a person she knows who eats pizza with chopsticks.

The points I want to make today is that there are usually many tools to perform the same job, and that the choice of ’solution’ is often a matter of opinion and personal preference, as long as the solution (chopsticks) can meet the requirements (eating the pizza). It is also for this reason that it is important to identify who is the person who will make the final decision, because various team members might have a different idea about what the ideal solution is.

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Funny Sales Performance Video of the Week

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Monday Evening Humor on Competition

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Competition can bring out a guy’s dark side.  Be careful of unintended consequences of new incentive plans.



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Worst Union Leader in the World and OC Transpo’s Strike

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OC Transpo, the transit service of the City of Ottawa, has been on strike since December 10th because they are not happy about what the city is offering in the new contract.  Here are some of the details of the offer the union received and rejected:

- Salary increase: 3% retoractive to April 1, 2008, 2% on April 1, 2009, and 2% on April 1, 2010.
- One time payment of $2,000
- Increase uncertified sick leave from six to eight days per year.
- Scheduling: “While we are proposing expansion of mixed odd work to weekdays for operators, we are committing to recovery time between all trips. We are also proposing more straight runs (up to 10 hours) as a means to provide more days off for operators. In order to ensure that concerns raised around the issue of run-cutting are heard, we are offering to pay a representative of ATU 279 to work with us on a full-time basis for the next 18 months. Operators will continue to book their daily work and their seniority rights will be respected.”
- Benefits: Many new and/or improved benefits.

Here’s the kicker…  many bus drivers are paid over $100,000 because the overtime is getting abused.  The city has made many improvements to their original offer, which keeps being rejected by the union president André Cornelier.  André refuses to ask the members to vote on the city’s latest offerering.  Meanwhile, many people can’t get to work, have to pay for a taxi every day, walk long distances in bad weather, or are stuck in heavy traffic driving to work.  Finally, Labour Minister Rona Ambrose is expected to force a vote on the city’s latest offering.

Here’s an interesting clip of André Cornelier explaining on CTV why he is not asking his members to vote on the offer.

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The 12 Days of Christmas Incentive Compensation Blues

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I found this “Twelve Days of Christmas’ incentive comp version on hereisthecity.com.

On the first day of Christmas,
my big boss said I’m key
So he’s got a good bonus for me.

On the second day of Christmas,
my big boss said to me
Two regulators a-probing,
But there’s still a good bonus for me.

On the third day of Christmas,
my big boss said to me
Three CEOs a-resigning,
Two regulators a-probing,
And there’s still a decent bonus for me.

On the fourth day of Christmas,
my big boss said to me
Four banks are imploding,
Three CEOs a-resigning,
Two regulators a-probing,
And there’s still a decent bonus for me.

On the fifth day of Christmas,
my big boss said to me
Five Goldman stings,
Four banks are imploding,
Three CEOs a-resigning,
Two regulators a-probing,
So there’s no large bonus for me

On the sixth day of Christmas,
my big boss said to me
Six bosses are a-praying,
Five Goldman stings,
Four banks are imploding,
Three CEOs a-resigning,
Two regulators a-probing,
So there’s no large bonus for me.

On the seventh day of Christmas,
my big boss said to me
Seven clients a-suing,
Six bosses are a-praying,
Five Goldman stings,
Four banks are imploding,
Three CEOs a-resigning,
Two regulators a-probing,
So there’s no large bonus for me.

On the eighth day of Christmas,
my big boss said to me
Eight hedge funds a-failing,
Seven clients a-suing,
Six bosses are a-praying,
Five Goldman stings,
Four banks are imploding,
Three CEOs a-resigning,
Two regulators a-probing,
Now there’s only a small bonus for me.

On the ninth day of Christmas,
my big boss said to me
Nine executives have been fired,
Eight hedge funds a-failing,
Seven clients a-suing,
Six bosses are a-praying,
Five Goldman stings,
Four banks are imploding,
Three CEOs a-resigning,
Two regulators a-probing,
Now there’s only a small bonus for me.

On the tenth day of Christmas,
my big boss said to me
Ten thousand lay-offs,
Nine executives have been fired,
Eight hedge funds a-failing,
Seven clients a-suing,
Six bosses are a-praying,
Five Goldman stings,
Four banks are imploding,
Three CEOs a-resigning,
Two regulators a-probing,
Now there’s hardly any bonus for me.

On the eleventh day of Christmas,
my big boss said to me
Eleven billions in write-downs,
Ten thousand lay-offs,
Nine executives have been fired,
Eight hedge funds a-failing,
Seven clients a-suing,
Six bosses are a-praying,
Five Goldman stings,
Four banks are imploding,
Three CEOs a-resigning,
Two regulators a-probing,
Now there’s hardly any bonus for me.

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my big boss said to me
Twelve weeks of losses
Eleven billions in write-downs,
Ten thousand lay-offs,
Nine executives have been fired,
Eight hedge funds a-failing,
Seven clients a-suing,
Six bosses are a-praying,
Five Goldman stings,
Four banks are imploding,
Three CEOs a-resigning,
Two regulators a-probing,
Now there’s no bl..dy bonus for me!

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Competition Bashing (continued)

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To move on from yesterday’s pretty heavy debate (which also happened to beat my record for the number of visitors in a day), I thought I would share with you this billboard war story.

Check out this picture of 3 Indian airlines bashing each other on billboards. Which airline would you fly?

Read from bottom to top:

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