Yearly Archives: 2011
Where the Workplace Ends and Social Media Begins
With the ever-growing popularity of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, companies have been forced to struggle with a difficult issue: where to draw the line between…
What’s Coming Next? 3 Lessons Learned in Great by Choice
Jim Collins, in his new book Great by Choice, tells us that “we cannot predict the future. But we can create it.” (That’s actually a Peter Drucker quote, which…
3 Reasons Why Succession Plans Are A Bust
Most succession plans fail. In many cases it’s not because of a lack of trying. Management and human resources are investing more time in succession planning. But they treat…
13 Stats and Facts – Obesity: A Heavy Burden on Business
One in three U.S. adults is obese. If the current trajectory continues, 50% of the population will be obese by 2030. More than 60% of the United States population…
Why Complexity Drives Managers Crazy
Business life has always featured the unpredictable, the surprising, and the unexpected. What’s changed is that the level of complexity that people have to cope with has simply become…
Recruiting Up, Turnover Down – Will It Continue?
Economists have made no secret of the fact that it will be several years until the United States returns to a healthy unemployment rate of less than six percent. As…
Personal Assistants: No Longer Just Go-fers
Gone are the days when brewing coffee, picking up laundry, and typing memos defined the perfect personal assistant. In order to get ahead in the field of personal assistance today…
Speaking of jobs: The Coming Jobs War
And speaking of jobs… on the same day that Jobs died, I received an invitation to preview a new book, The Coming Jobs War. This isn’t a book…
What’s more troubling: The loss of jobs or the loss of Jobs?
Depending on your frame of reference, asking the question “can the U.S. survive without Jobs?” will elicit a variety of responses. Responses will inevitably be influenced by political affiliation…
5 Things Employers Can Do To Simplify (and Improve) Recruiting
With the national unemployment rate hovering around 9 percent, so many people are looking for work that a resu-mess has been created that floods inboxes and cripples applicant processing…