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Relieving Stress, Chinese-Style
Monday 7 September 2009
Grace Ng, the China Correspondent for The Straits Times has an interesting article in todays edition of the paper. In it she discusses some ways in which '...nie nie zhu or 'pinch brigades' have spread like wildfire' and are attempting to relieve the stress of working long hours or no hours because they are unemployed. Said to be aged in their twenties and thirties, some of their actions include massing inside supermarkets to crush packets of noodles, and street based large scale pillow fights.
Ng reports that many are graduates from smaller cities who have migrated to work in larger cities, only to discover minimal work or very poor wages and working conditions that included no annual leave, no medical benefits and even no lunch breaks. I suspect that these young Chinese workers aren't the only ones in the world facing a major downgrading of their current working conditions and typically in an upturn, those conditions will not improve as quickly as the company balance sheet.
But I reckon they are the only workers with the inventiveness to use 'pillow technology' as a core approach to stress relief - and more power to them!
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Monday 6 February 2012
There's a shift underway in the mining industry that will likely catch Australian airlines out if they aren't paying attention - the shift toward 'remote' mining. Remote mining is being pushed by the automation ability across all aspects of current mining technology, which at the basic level, means that fewer humans are needed on site in mines. And that suggests a major challenge for airline companies of all sizes, who've come to rely on the FIFO (fly in and fly out) model of human capability delivery to mines across Australia. The technology advancements are across almost all aspects of mining operations with perhaps just one area (maintenance) still likely to need onsite human capabilities.
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Thursday 19 January 2012
Simple question really. Or is it? In this quick article I provide an overview of the difference between strategy that is D.E.A.D and A.L.I.V.E Think of it as a potential 'do this' collection for your Organisation
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Monday 16 January 2012
Lots of thoughts for the year already underway, with some covering a range of ideas from 'don't cut corners on relative incidentals when the project is significant for you' to 'you can't change your approach if you keep thinking inside the same box'. But for now a reminder about planning for your future: If you know your future is a straight line, then you can afford to only look in the rear view mirror.
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