Privilege

Work inspection

Production meeting

"We've been reporting the news for years. We know what can happen when we cover dramatic events. We must be prepared for a worst case scenario."

"Things getting out of hand and people dying?"

"Things being solved peacefully and NOBODY dying."

Performance assessment

"During your tenure, your apartment's numbers have climbed over seven billion. I'm afraid the New World Order will have to relieve you of your responsibilities as vice-president of world population reduction."

"Aawww..."

Individual freedom

"Why, yes, I firmly believe in freedom for the individual."

"I wanted to discuss that, boss. You see, about my having to wear this to not be fired..."

"I am totally free to establish that condition. You don't intend to restrict me, do you?"

Rest

"... so, by increasing working hours from eight to sixteen a day, our employee's time off will be twice as long in terms of rest! No, you don't need to thank us. We are always thinking of you."

Overtime

"Good night, Gutiérrez. And don't feel down because you have to work late! it will help you climb the corporate ladder. I'm sure you have ambitions, don't you?"

"Of course! My biggest ambition is to have a life outside work."

Work

"Be advised, sir, that this company considers hard work to be something that lifts and ennobles the human creature, and we are not willing to debase and corrupt such a precious thing by offering for it something as lowly as money."

AM radio

"This is what happens when we let women have power: they don't know how to run a government, they're soft, and they let immigrants overrun the country and take our jobs and everything we have strived for. After this musical interlude we'll discuss that liberal invention of human rights and how it endangers decent, hard working people like you and me."

"My God! How can this guy have his own radio show?"

"You're right. This is gay music! Damn fags are everywhere these days. So disgusting!"

Efficiency

"This setup will make the process of printing reports for management more time-efficient."

Calendar

"Was a date stamp for over five thousand years really necessary?"

"You have no idea how things are in this office. Whenever new supplies have to be bought, everyone acts as if it's the end of the world."

Time goes by

First day of work...

"Time went by fast! Only two more hours to go home!"

One year later...

"Can time go by any slower? Still two more hours to go home!"

Theory and practice

According to Levinthal and March (1993), few firms are successful at simultaneously developing both radical and incremental knowledge, primarily due to limited resources within the firm. Explicitly focusing on either exploration or exploitation as a means of enhancing the knowledge base generally implies not focusing on the other approach. As researchers (e.g., Hedlund, 1994; Schildt, Maula, & Keil, 2005; Volberda, 1996) have pointed out, focusing on radically new knowledge and focusing on incrementally enhancing a current knowledge base often require very different types of organizational cultures, capabilities, and structures…

"Welcome aboard! We are pleased to have someone with your academic credentials working for us."

"Thank you."

"Every new employee is asked to read this book. Please read it."

Once, long ago in a land far away, there lived four little characters who ran through a Maze looking for cheese to nourish them and make them happy.

Two were mice, named “Sniff” and “Scurry”, and two were Littlepeople — beings who were as small as mice but who looked and acted a lot like people today. Their names were “Hem“ and “Haw.“

"My education didn't prepare me for this."