Even more remarkably, most of them have achieved this despite the additional handicap of very limited budgets and human resources, which is how they have developed the additional and equally redoubtable skill of highly effective fund-raising and volunteer recruitment. Like official bodies, these organisations have also faced the fundamental challenge that the ‘product’ they are ‘selling’ is intrinsically less appealing than that of their competitors in the commercial sector - indeed, in many cases, it is positively unwelcome - and many of them have risen to this challenge in spectacularly successful measure. Growing up in the intensely competitive ‘attention marketplace’ of the last 30 years, charities, pressure groups, campaigning groups, independent think-tanks and a whole host of other bodies and organisations - including, one could well argue, terrorist groups and fundamentalist movements - have quickly evolved into lean, efficient, media-literate and utterly communications-driven specialists. Many NGOs have been signally more effective at adopting and refining the communications techniques of corporations for their own purposes than governments have, and indeed at developing many entirely original approaches to the problem of message fatigue. During the same period, another even more redoubtable opponent has emerged: the nongovernmental organisation (NGO). Best management and mentors I have ever come across in the workplace. Very fun and productive environment to be apart of. Public bodies are not battling it out alone with companies for this scarce resource. 4.7 Culture Sort by Language Showing all 3 reviews Wonderful company Supervisor (Former Employee) - Enterprise, AL - ApIndeed Featured review Incredible company to work for. Under such conditions, both the ‘product’ itself and the way in which it is ‘made’ and ‘delivered’ are subject to sufficient control or influence for a recognisable version of commercial brand management to take place. It is no accident that many of the places that have made the fastest and most noticeable progress in ‘branding’ themselves are the ones that are run most like corporations - most prominently city-states like Dubai and Singapore, where a Chief Executive-style leader has more than average ability to lay down the law and ensure adherence to his/her particular vision of the place and its future. Admiring Glances can be contacted via phone at (334) 393-4080 for pricing, hours and directions. A social contract is a very different thing from a contract of employment, and a worker who disagrees or fails to respect corporate aims can either leave, or be fired. About Admiring Glances Admiring Glances is located at 1112 Boll Weevil Cir suite b in Enterprise, Alabama 36330. As I have mentioned in previous editorials to this journal, the main difference between companies and countries is that companies aren't really democracies at all: in fact, they are a species of tolerated tyranny, in which the Chief Executive will seldom tolerate any deviation from the declared corporate or brand ‘vision’.
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