Best Tail in Town!

Red Lobster needs to buy me one of these cars. I'd drive it everywhere! Who cares about MPG when you have this beast riding shotgun! I'll bet it startles more than one old lady at a stop light!

Seth Godin on Andrew Carnegie with wisdom for Red Lobster

Seth Godin wrote the following insight on his blog. It is as if it was directly address to the corporate "leaders" in Darden/Red Lobster. HEY!!! He's speaking to you - listen up!

Carnegie apparently said, "Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory."

Is there a typical large corporation working today that still believes this?

Most organizations now have it backwards. The factory, the infrastructure, the systems, the patents, the process, the manual... that's king. In fact, shareholders demand it.

It turns out that success is coming from the atypical organizations, the ones that can get back to embracing irreplaceable people, the linchpins, the ones that make a difference. Anything else can be replicated cheaper by someone else.