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Revealed: Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees

Revealed: Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees | Internet of Things - Company and Research Focus | Scoop.it
From pando.com - April 8, 2014 10:49 PM

pe “‘Masters are forbidden to poach workers from other members of the craft.' - British medieval ordinances of Bristol cobblers in 1364’” — 
    

This week, as the final summary judgement for the resulting class action suit looms, and companies mentioned (Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm) scramble to settle out of court....court documents show shocking evidence of a much larger conspiracy, reaching far beyond Silicon Valley.

    

Confidential internal Google and Apple memos...clearly show that what began as a secret cartel agreement between Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric Schmidt to illegally fix the labor market for hi-tech workers, expanded within a few years to include companies ranging from Dell, IBM, eBay and Microsoft, to Comcast, Clear Channel, Dreamworks, and London-based public relations behemoth WPP.

All told, the combined workforces of the companies involved totals well over a million employees.


Read the full article here.


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Sad but true..  And people wonder why so many leave the high tech corporate world to do start-ups and go it alone rather than be a slave.  This article convinced me that Steve Jobs  was never a good manager, while I could over look some of idiosyncrasies, and still other failings to emotional immaturity Steve in effect became the very thing he hated in other's, a corporate slaver.  

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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's curator insight, April 8, 2014 12:25 PM

This is sobering, especially with Google's "Don't be evil" informal corporate motto.  What nefarious dealings ARE THESE to keep the IT folks down, while large profits are enjoyed by executives?    

If this all pans out as it reads in the media, it's not good, tech companies, not good at all.  ~  D 
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Will 2014 Be Different? 2013 Study - 75% Change Failure Rate continues #Infographic

Will 2014 Be Different? 2013 Study - 75% Change Failure Rate continues #Infographic | Internet of Things - Company and Research Focus | Scoop.it
From changemanagementsuccess.com - January 30, 2014 10:52 PM

 

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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's curator insight, February 1, 2014 12:23 AM

What change leaders need to get right:   Focus your training and tools on helping managers and keeping the message consistent and fully communicated throughout the organization.  ~  D
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's curator insight, February 18, 2014 6:54 PM

This is an helpful infographic for perspective in Agile Learning as well it's original location on ScoopIt:  Change Management Resources.  ~  D
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Are you a Nimble organization? Create an organizational DNA that views change as a constant.

Are you a Nimble organization? Create an organizational DNA that views change as a constant. | Internet of Things - Company and Research Focus | Scoop.it
From gailseverini.com - February 25, 2014 9:36 AM

Excerpted, via Gail Severrini & the Change Whisperer:

The authors of the current  Innosight study, “Creative Destruction Whips through Corporate America,” offer a warning to executives: “At the current churn rate, 75% of the S&P 500 will be replaced by 2027.”

....The Innosight study also proposes three questions that the CEO and executive committee should ask themselves. I found the second question to be arresting: “How fast do we have to change to maintain our position within our industry?”

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It is about creating and sustaining an organizational DNA that views change as a constant...

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....There is always strategic change in organizations. It is a fact of life now. We need permanent structures to manage it.


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I only wish that more companies understood that this Change Thing is a requisite for corporate survival and thriving,....but many are just too afraid to change the way they think about change, let alone manage and be a leader with it....Too bad the market punishes those companies that don't embrace it.

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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's curator insight, February 14, 2014 6:36 PM

Whether they are called strategic focus areas or 

Strategy Realization Offices, leaders need information to help them guide their focus on their strategic imperatives and help them continually clarify their line of sight on getting to the benefits of their change promise and plans, allowing for course corrections along the way.  ~  D   
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's curator insight, February 21, 2014 11:31 AM

Replacing  "75% of the S&P 500 ...by 2027" is a huge pointer to what our learning is and needs to be for the months and years ahead.  ~  D
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