“Is your organization underpaying or overpaying employees? This is a critical, decisive question for most organizations.” That’s the question leading into a description of a service on compensation research and reports. It’s a good question, isn’t it? Labor cost is always a challenge – regardless of whether you are a large organization or a small team [...]
Dirty Jobs, Worst Jobs – I Don’t Want it! Seems Mike Rowe of Discovery’s “Dirty Jobs” doesn’t have a corner on the market for worst jobs. Popular Science just released a story on “The Worst Jobs in Science.” “We solicited nominations from more than a thousand working scientists and culled the list for the most [...]
Another List, Another Answer I hate lists like this. I’m guilty of making my own, so I probably don’t have room to talk, but when I see these, they jump out at me as another guaranteed solution to global problems, that won’t work. “Eight ways,” “Five Focus Areas,” “Seven Steps” – What to choose… As [...]
I Love This band I’m listening to one of my favorite bands right now as I’m thinking about this topic… I wonder how many bands never really make it big for whatever reason? I mean, let’s take out the variable of talent — you can’t imagine how many people I’ve heard sing or play an [...]
Do you have your 2009 goals yet? No, I’m not talking about resolutions. Oh, the difference? Resolution: a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something; the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc. Syn: aim, declaration, intention, purpose. (dictionary.com) Goal: the result or achievement [...]
Recent headlines on the economy read: Producer prices drop again; jobless claims jump 2008 foreclosure filings set record America’s lost manufacturing jobs Is Stimulus Pushing Recovery Further Away? More Retail Bankruptcies Likely At the core of all these concerns and challenges is the issue of [tag]productivity[/tag]. Which gets to the question: Why is it important [...]
First of all I have to say I love the name of the site: SNOBS – Social Network for Opportunistic Businesswomen. There doesn’t seem to be any doubt what it’s about. It also looks like they have some excellent information on it. Including this post about engaging your workforce. The author, Karen Schmidt, comments on [...]
Even if you don’t follow their stock price you need to understand this: Google’s stock close yesterday: $315 Price on Aug 27, 2004: $108 Highest price between: $714 Source (Yahoo Finance has their 1yr target at $458) Obviously there are many reasons for Google’s success. I want to highlight one critical factor underlying it which [...]
I know with all my recent posts about the difficulty of the economy and companies downsizing, you might ask yourself, ‘why is Scott writing about hiring?’ Because even in this environment, there are hiring needs – whether it’s because you figure out how to deal with the challenges better, you lose someone you didn’t think [...]
I think too often in [tag]business[/tag] we get caught up in the focus of “running the business” that we forget to “run the organization.” It seems to me leaders have three ‘personas’ they need to manage: Shareholder / Customer Relations – the externally visible person who clearly defines and explains the value and [tag]performance[/tag] of [...]
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