User talk:Timanderson

Regarding Lonmin mine in South Africa, I'm reading the book "the three laws of performance" by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan. Lonmin is used as a successful example of the change in the corporation under CEO Brad Mills (2004 - 2008). The book was published in 2009. The very positive change by Brad Mills was to outlast him and go well into the future. However in 2012 there was a major strike with a "massacre" by the South African police that seems to fully contradict the success supposedly brought about by Brad Mills.

Question: was Brad's and Lonmin's success from 2004-2008 real or illusory? It may be that the events were fully outside the control of Lonmin's new CEO but if not, then Brad's and Lonmin's success was only temporary.

Comments Timanderson (talk) 16:24, 6 January 2013 (UTC)