good to great

"All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline.
When you have disciplined people, you don't need hierarchy.
When you have disciplined thought, you don't need bureaucracy.
When you have disciplined acion, you don't need excessive controls."

from "Good to Great" by Jim Collins

Interesting quote from the book I'm reading for my leadership class. The book basically tries to compare good companies with great companies, and how you can become great instead of just good. I kinda like this discipline idea, and I really think ideally it would improve the health of organization.. thought some of you might find it interesting and thought provoking as well :)

my moomKafae

"ten years ago, i didn't know what a frappucino was.." let alone having heard of coffee brands like starbucks, seattle's best, second cup, etc. i still recall drinking iced coffee from McDonald's at Sogo.. probably my first coffee ever.. (which i would never go back to liking again).. over the past ten years we've seen coffee places mushroomed - so quickly we simply lost track of which one is the latest branch.. sometimes two of them located right opposite each other, so people don't even have to cross the street.. that's just a repetition of what happened in the States maybe some ten years earlier.. the coffee culture has gone under major revolution.. in the old days, people made coffee at home.. something the wife would prepare for their hubbies.. the idea of going out for coffee didn't exist before.. and then along came howard schultz, the masterbrain behind starbucks, who after visiting espresso bars in Milan saw potential to bring it back to the States.. first, Seattle, then nationwide, now global.. people today go to coffee places not just for coffee but to read, to hang out, to socialize.. the ambiance, the experience, everything is beyond just selling drinks to customers.. i don't know about you, but i enjoy being there.. alone, with friends, with family.. either way.. แค่กลิ่นกาแฟหอมๆ กับโซฟานุ่มๆ นั่งเฉยๆก็แฮปปี้แล้ว :) ว่าแล้วก็อยากได้ซักแก้วเหมือนกันนะนี่..

drops...

"เพียงวันละเล็ก ละน้อย ให้มันเป็นไปอย่างนี้ทุกวัน
ให้เหมือน หยดน้ำที่มันหยดลงที่เดิม
เสมอ รักน้อยๆแต่มาคงที่เถอะเธอ ก็พอชื่นใจ
ให้เป็นแค่น้ำ หยดน้อย หยดลงเบาๆที่พื้นหัวใจ
ให้รัก ซึมซับลงไปประจำทุกวัน
เสมอ รู้ว่ารักแต่อย่าใจร้อนเลย นะเธอ
..ให้วันพรุ่งนี้ ช่วยพิสูจน์ความรัก
..ให้วันเวลารวบรวมรักที่ได้จากเธอ
..ทางอีกแสนไกลที่เราต้องเจอะเจอ
..ค่อยๆไปเถอะ จะดีไหม
ทำทีละนิด ละน้อย และคอยดูแลให้รักงดงาม
หยดน้ำ ไม่นานจะเป็นดังธารน้ำเย็น
สดใส และให้รู้ว่าเป็นความรักจากใจ
เพียงไม่ช้าไม่นาน"

เคยฟังมั้ย ฟังแล้วชอบ สบายๆ เหมาะกับวันฝนคกแบบนี้เลย..

new funeral

so fall quarter has started, and honestly this fall kinda feels different from last year.. perhaps we all have got used to everything around us - the school, the people, the system, everything.. last year everything was brand new.. and during this time it was the CIM recovery period, cuz we all had CIM SARS back then.. and all those 8.30am accounting classes, my gosh.. i'm so glad i won't have to do that again.. well, there's always the first time for everything right? some of which we hope would also be last :P

anyways, i was sitting in my service marketing class the other night, listening to dean honack talking about branding, marketing, etc. at one point he mentioned that these days, in some states, the new business is drive-thru funeral service.. took me a while to visualize.. but people actually have so little time they only drive through to pay respect to their friends or loved ones.. what has become of today's society? that sounds so sad doesn't it? sad enough it is a funeral, but even worse when you add the 'drive-thru' to it.. guess some people don't really care much now.. i pity the one lying in the cascet..

then again, quoted from my other prof kreamer, there are at least two sides to a story.. maybe those families cannot afford a full-service funeral.. maybe this option makes economic sense for them.. of course those who passed away wouldn't want the living to bear too much burden.. and come to think of it, the funeral is more for the living not the dead, don't you think? i'm not supporting drive-thru funerals of course, but i can't really oppose them either.. everyday you hear about new things/ideas sometimes you just can't keep up..