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Top 10 Business Stories of 2007 and What We Had to Say: We're going to see a lot of 2007 wrap-up articles and blogs over the next couple of weeks (like our recently posted Best Productivity Tips of 2007) not to mention predictions for 2008. It's what you do in December, and we embrace it. BusinessWeek churned out a list of the...; Tags: Lori Deschene, Apple iPhone; Blog posts 2007-12-17
Burger King Denies Putting Prophylactics on Whoppers: College student Van Miguel Hartless claims he bit into an unwrapped condom in his Southwestern Whopper at a Rutland, Vermont BK. He's pursuing legal action, seeking damages for pain and suffering, emotional duress, and medical expenses. Franchise owner Carrols Corporation investigated in cooperation with the Vermont Department of Health and...; Tags: Lori Deschene, Burger King Corp.; Blog posts 2007-12-12
CVS Managers Don't Know (or Just Don't Play by) the Rules: Federal labor inspectors found 43 CVS stores changed employee timecards and violated child labor laws. It's not quite a Gap in India scenario, but still, policy was clearly ignored. The department found that CVS violated the law governing how many hours and how late minors can work, and also allowed 78 minors, aged...; Tags: Lori Deschene, CVS Corp., minor; Blog posts 2007-12-12
Study Shows Managers Aren't Ensuring Their Companies' Long-Term Survival: Do you know the average life expectancy of corporations in general? A new study shows many business leaders don't; managers in young organizations shoot too low, and managers in older ones shoot too high. It's actually less than 50 years. And according to the research, the older an organization, the higher the...; Tags: Leadership, Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-11-21
Need to Cancel a Vacation for Work? No Problem: It's becoming increasingly difficult to justify taking time to yourself (despite abundant research on the benefits of work/life balance, which should release us from feeling the need to find justification). Research shows that 19 percent of workers have cancelled a vacation for work at least once -- and vacation insurers are counting on this. ...; Tags: Financial Planning, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Lori Deschene, insurance; Blog posts 2007-11-15

Research Shows Why You Are Always Right: Have you ever worked with someone who's always right? You know, one of those people who can always find a reason why a customer, client, or coworker is to blame for their personal shortcomings. Poorly prepared presentation? The client lacks vision. Accounting error? Faulty software. Disagreement about corporate strategy? It's all you're fault...; Tags: Strategy, Lori Deschene, Always-Right; Blog posts 2007-11-12
Board Compensation: A Little Estrogen Goes a Long Way: Approximately 91% of S&P 500 companies have at least one woman on the board, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart, and, on average, those women are bringing in about $15,000 more annually than their male counterparts. The Corporate Library's annual pay survey indicated that median total compensation for male corporate directors is $104,375,...; Tags: Corporate governance, Gender and diversity, Benefits, Lori Deschene, compensation, board, women, Corporate Library; Blog posts 2007-11-08
And the World's Worst Product Is...: ...sleeping pills advertised to children (although they may look appealing when the kids are all pumped-up on sugar later tonight.) Consumers International, a global consumer group, accepted submissions from consumer organizations around the world, and formulated an abridged list of bad products based on the following criteria: the size of the company,...; Tags: Sales strategy, Lori Deschene, Consumers International; Blog posts 2007-10-31
Are You Earning as Much as Your Peers?: According to Training Magazine's Annual Salary Survey, average trainer salaries reached $81,940 this year; not a huge increase from last year's $81,489 , but still an increase. Executive-level pay, hit $131,704, an 18.2 percent increase from 2006. Salaries for IT training managers -- if you're not one you...; Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Lori Deschene, consulting industry, salary; Blog posts 2007-10-12
Workaholics Sleep Their Way to the Top: This post is for the workaholics. You know who you are (and if you don't, you may want to ask yourself a few questions to see if this applies to you.) Since this is National Work and Family Month, you may be expecting some platitudinous reminders,...; Tags: Lori Deschene, workaholic; Blog posts 2007-10-04
Can Employees Produce Without Trust and Empowerment?: Wal-Mart's struggling to grow market share and increase stock value, and according to Business Week and retail consultant Patricia Pao, poor customer service is to blame. The obvious explanation is that employees just don't care because they're not compensated enough to do so (which creates a vicious cycle; weakened employee morale...; Tags: Sales strategy, Lori Deschene, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; Blog posts 2007-10-02
How to be a Demographic Realist: There's an interesting article in strategy+business called "How to be a Demographic Realist" that presents some false assumptions about retirement -- something 21 percent of the global population will need to think about by 2100, as opposed to 7 percent now. It's probably not news to you that the burgeoning senior population faces some challenges...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-09-26
Mental Health Study Urges Employers: Bring Out Your Depressed!: Most companies don't make ensuring their employees' mental health a priority. New research shows this is a mistake -- if we're talking about depression, that is. A year-long study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, revealed the financial benefits of getting depressed employees into treatment: Employees who got...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Lori Deschene, health care; Blog posts 2007-09-25
The Weight's Over: Should Fat People Pay More for Health Insurance?: In a previous blog, we questioned whether or not employers should encourage healthy lifestyles to increase productivity. If discounted gym memberships and healthy vending machine alternatives -- no doubt, placed next to Snickers bars -- don't do the trick, new regulations may. Companies can now charge unhealthy overweight...; Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Insurance, Lori Deschene, health care, worker, health insurance; Blog posts 2007-09-13
Retention 101: Refuse to Let Customers Cancel: Customers know they can benefit from retention plans, and oftentimes people will cry "cancellation" to squeeze more out of a service provider. But sometimes those customers just don't spend enough to warrant fighting for them. Maybe that's why Sprint's been making it difficult for some customers to cancel their service (which may...; Tags: Lori Deschene, Sprint Communications; Blog posts 2007-08-27
When the Boss Is Away the Worker Will...Work?: You're taking off a week to go to Hawaii or Paris -- or maybe you're just schlepping it over to small town, Missouri to visit family -- and you tell your employees you'll be unreachable for the week. Come Wednesday you start wondering if that important report got processed. So you...; Tags: Team management, worker, Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-08-22
Minimum Wage Increase Is Good for Business: On Tuesday, minimum wage increased for the first time in over a decade -- from $5.15 to $5.85, the first of three increases set to bring the rate to $7.25 by 2009. With an estimated 5.3 million workers earning less than $7.25 an hour, the effects...; Tags: Lori Deschene, minimum wage, deduction; Blog posts 2007-07-26
Diversify Your 401K with ETFs: As exchange-traded funds become increasingly popular with investors (ETF assets increased from $65.6 billion in 2000 to $422.6 billion in 2006), many retirement investment firms are pushing to increase ETF investment in the arena of 401k plans, where mutual funds have long been king. Many of the...; Tags: Retirement plans, 401(k), Financial services, Investment, Lori Deschene, ETF, 401(k) plan; Blog posts 2007-07-26