I’ve had many conversations in my career with employees who “essentially” felt they were probably more important to the business than they really were. You know who I’m talking about! The ones who at some point let it slip: “This place would shut down if I wasn’t here” or “Let’s see how you do if [...]
I was reminded last night that success doesn’t just come to you, and it might not necessarily be about hard work and attitude – like your Dad would always say. To often we (the collective lot of us!) want to believe success is like the lotto – at least to often we hope to get [...]
I saw that Penelope Trunk running a training series called: Secrets of an A-List Blogger: A Week with Penelope Trunk, which I’m sure is a great training series, but the title struck me very funny! So, let’s be clear so that Penelope and her gang of 20 somethings don’t come after me – I’m not [...]
Forbes recently had an article titled “The 147 Companies that Control Everything“, put together by a Swiss think tank the study attempts to pin point those companies that are most connected to making “it” happen worldwide (and by “it” I mean “everything”). From the article: Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [...]
Let me start this by saying Steve and I rarely got together for lunch or meetings (and by “rarely” I mean never). That doesn’t mean many of us don’t have opinions on why Steve Jobs was a great business leader. With the upcoming release of the biography ‘Steve Jobs” many details are coming out about [...]
Let me give you a couple things to ponder about Walmart: -1% of Americans work at a Walmart -$.36 = amount of profit per $10 spent at Walmart -600,000 +/- (Number of new employees hired by Walmart annually) -$15,000,000,000 (Yes that’s Billion) in operating profit. -$10,000 (the amount of salary increase if Walmart spent every [...]
The Following is a Guest Post by Erin Palmer (also check out her bio below) – she contacted me and wanted to write a guest post, I said she could if she could make me laugh, she did – it took McDreamy to do it – here it is… I was a nerdy kid by [...]
I will by flying on 9/11 this year, I don’t seem overly concerned by this, just as I’m sure people in Hawaii aren’t concerned about going down to the naval shipyards on December 7th. Dates and history have a funny way to making us do weird things – like not flying a specific day because [...]
For those who aren’t big Major League Baseball (MLB) fans you probably don’t know what the “September Call-Up” or “Expanded Rosters” mean. Each year on September 1st, as the MLB season goes into its final month, the league allows teams to invite players from their minor league teams and the roster number expands from 25 [...]
In terms of one part of your corporate Compensation Philosophy you can be a Pay Follower, a Pay Leader or Market Rate. You never hear Pay Leaders complain about Turnover… You always her Pay Followers complain about how Pay Leaders can actually pay that much… Those who Pay at the Market always talk about how [...]
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