ICE Girls

About ICE Girls

The story of the Little Match Girl from management's perspcetive and how using street urchins  is a win/win for all concerned. Read by Cynell Jackson. Also heard is Mark Sellin as Hans Chistian Andersen and Margit Schmitt, Dan McLaughlin, Mike Schmitt, Bailey Jackon, Tom Hubbard, Nick Smith, Mark Sellin, and Marie Plug as bureauceats.  Margit also read the fables. From a book by Dan McLaughlin. (https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Girls-Managers-Learn-Little/dp/1438247907)

Publisher

Dan McLaughlin

Category

business · business · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Jan 2025

Latest episode

23 Jan 2025

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Jan 2025

   Chapter 1: The Status of The Danish Match Industry Before the Match Girl Concept

   Before, someone had to have the idea of little waifs selling matches. It was a team from Marketing. Here is described the conditions and constraints they were working under before they had their brianstorm.

2. 

   23 Jan 2025

   Chapter 2: The Idea Gains Traction

   Problems are antcipated and then overcome about using the urban homless to sell matches with up-to-date manageral techniques.  Success! The idea marches forward.

3. 

   23 Jan 2025

   Chapter 3: the Plan Revealed

   The speech that unviels the concept.

4. 

   23 Jan 2025

   Chapter 3a Reaction

   Initial success with the plan and marketing Successes during the warm summer days leads to a misplaced sesne of wellness.

5. 

   23 Jan 2025

   Chapter 4 Winter Brings Problems

   Problems which were not forseen and were not my fault.  I tried to warn them.

6. 

   23 Jan 2025

   chapter4a Meet Mr. Andersen, star reporter

   Things begin to go wrong once mr. Hans Christen Andersen catches wind of the strory.  He investigates.

7. 

   23 Jan 2025

   chapter 4b Press Releases

   Damage control at the firm which hires starving waifs.

8. 

   23 Jan 2025

   Chapter 5 Part 1 Marketing Brainstorms

   A besieged merketing team brainstorms how to turn a mob at the corporate gates as a good thing. They fail, but maintain focus.

9. 

   23 Jan 2025

   Chapter 5 Part 2 Conclusion

   A final showdown which, somewhat implausibly, tunrs into as anti-mime screed. A happy ending for all ensues, except for the starving waifs, of course.

10. 

    22 Jan 2025

    The Steadfast Tin Soldier BONUS (a parable read by Margit Schmitt)

    The meaning of the story is that while there might be a fine line between being steadfast and being a stalker, but it feeds the same to the object of his attentions.

11. 

    22 Jan 2025

    Princess and the Pea BONUS (A parable read by Margit Schmitt)

    The morale here is that is a rigorus testing program will not necessarily give you the results you desire.

12. 

    22 Jan 2025

    The Red Shoes BONUS (A Parable Read by Margit Schmitt)

    The moral of this one is somewhat ambigious, like most things religious, but seems to involve the church willing to turn anything into a spectacle.

13. 

    21 Jan 2025

    Emperor's New Clothes BONUS (A parable read by Margit Schmitt)

    A parabe about  being too clever and the power of nudism.

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

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