After several successive quarters of modest losses, Kingdom of Darkness (NYSE:KOD) Chairman and CEO Bill Z. Bub announced a two major new initiatives instituted across the enterprise aimed at increasing shareholder value. First, Bub announced the job title “manager” was reclassified from a salaried position to a combination salary and commission position. “Even though we had all of our managers read The Purpose Driven Life last year, we found that we still had to do something to fight the tendency of our middle management to be bloated and beaureaucratic, particular in the customer-facing portions of our business. By making sure they have some skin in the game with part of their salaries tied to performance, we believe our managers will become more productive. If not, we may have to bring in a consulting firm to help us streamine our processes.” Next, to make KOD more customer and family friendly, Bub indicated that they were eliminating the “demon” job title in favor of the friend...
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