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Technology Rewriting the Rules of Business

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the smaller-is-better dept.

theStorminMormon writes "Fortune magazine is running a story describing the overthrow of Jack Welch's old rules of business. (Welch responds here.) Although the article lists Google and Apple as two paragons of the new rules of business, it fails to note that the old rules of business originated from straight manufacturing firms while the new rules of business are coming from the (more service-oriented) tech sector." From the article: "Steve Jobs has emphasized that Apple hires only people who are passionate about what they do (something that, to be fair, Welch also talked about). At Genentech, CEO Art Levinson says he actually screens out job applicants who ask too many questions about titles and options, because he wants only people who are driven to make drugs that help patients fight cancer."

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  1. Yo Yos by neonprimetime · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apple hires only people who are passionate about what they do

    But are they as passionate as this sales clerk who just wanted to sell a yo-you?

  2. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    whoohoo! First post!

    1. Re:first post by neonprimetime · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      whoohoo! First reply to the first post that claimed it was the first post but really wasn't!

  3. RSS feed? by houghi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I get links to I get links to http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ht tp://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/11/15522 45&from=rss instead of http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/11/155 2245&from=rss resulting in errors when linking from Liferea.

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  4. I thought nano was the cure, just still too toxic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought twenty years ago that nanotech would be the cure for cancer. Since IBM wrote their name in single molecules in the 1960's, I thought that by now they would have biotech nano bits that could repair damaged cells and fix the tail ends of your dna to stop aging. In the 90's they had nanotech units that could supposedly do these functions -- but were too toxic to be used. Now there is nanotech packaging for food products that is supposedly safe? What gives? Is this doomed to be a cure only for the old money elite?