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- Push Towards Non-U.S. Directors and Execs Continues
- The reach for non-U.S. director and executive talent continues. More companies based in the U.S or elsewhere are diversifying their C-suites and boardrooms with non-Americans and are looking increasingly to India and China for fresh blood. That's the trend noted by BusinessWeek and America.gov. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Train Yourself to Stay Alert in Boring Meetings
- The Find: Psychologists to the rescue: researchers have discovered a method that allows people to train themselves to stay alert during boring tasks and seemingly endless meetings. The Source: "Self-Alert Training: Volitional modulation of autonomic arousal improves sustained attention" say that five times fast by Redmond O'Connell...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Are You Sabotaging Your Employees?
- Slacker Manager has linked to a survey on whether people are given 'strength-training' at work; that is, are trained to improve their strengths and use them more often. The answer appears to be a resounding no. I say "appears" because the data seems based...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- A Quarter of Women Report Workplace Discrimination
- The Find: When CareerBuilder.com asked nearly 4,000 American women if they felt they have equal opportunities for career advancement compared to men, 26 percent said no. The Source: A recent CareerBuilder.com survey. The Takeaway: It may have been a break-through year for...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Sephora: To Sell More Makeup, Give Makeup Lessons
- Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline. Maybe she can't draw a straight line with an eye pencil, and places like Sephora, a temple to smooth skin and "the smokey eye," whatever that is, intimidate the living daylights out of her. How do you sell her the products she's...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Macy's Exec: We Got Nothing from Stimulus Checks
- Macy's CFO Karen Hoguet told a United Way meeting in Cincinnati that "she does not expect Macy's to benefit at all" from federal stimulus checks. by Lisa Everitt
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Wachovia's Golden West Becomes Golden Albatross
- The big loss at Wachovia yesterday may have been a surprise, but according to the company's hometown newspaper the writing had been on the wall all along. by Kevin Kelleher
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- The End of Paper Tickets
- Remember when you used to be able to hold your ticket in your hand? Those days are now officially over, well, mostly. On June 1, the International Air Transport Association IATA officially retired the paper ticket from use worldwide. This is an impressive achievement that should help...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Is US Airways "Intimidating" Its Pilots?
- This week, I saw a news release come across the wire entitled, "US Airways Pilots Allege That Management, Ignoring Past Safety Practices, Resorts To Pilot Intimidation in an Effort to Reduce Fuel Cost." Now, I'm not going to lie. When I see sensational headlines like these, I usually...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- College "A Waste of Time" for Business
- Most firms wouldn't think of hiring workers who don't have a college degree. But degrees say very little about the person they're hiring, argues Charles Murray, a scholar at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute. The Wall Street Journal published For Most People, College Is a Waste...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Train and Retain | BTalk Australia
- (11min 59) Click on "Play" to hear the podcast or click "Get It" to download. How much resource you put behind training can have a significant impact on your staff turnover. This is particularly the case with IT, a sector where close to full employment makes staff...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Video: Enough of Your Excuses!
- I've come to the conclusion that, given the proper motivation and the proper training, anybody can sell. Maybe not at the very highest level. But there's no reason why anybody should feel as if a sales career is impossible for them. That's why I posted this video. by...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- BNET Readers: Forget Experience v. Youth, Focus on Fit
- Apparently, yesterday's post on the value of hiring experienced candidates with "baggage" hit a nerve: 34 comments in 24 hours and counting. There is a broad range of voices from staunch defenders of fresh recruits to their harshest critics ("they'll happily sing Kumbaya together around the campfire of failure," "outrageously...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Does Casual Dress Affect Productivity?
- If you're dressed in formal businesswear, will you be more productive than your more-casual co-workers? Depends who you ask. One side of the debate holds that sloppy dress leads to sloppy work. Laura Harris described how her nonchalant dress led to a decrease in company enthusiasm and...
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- 6 Steps to Cre8ive Problem Solving
- Creativity really is simple as 1, 2, 3 (and 4, 5, 6). It is a common misperception that you have to be born creative or a real maverick in order to think creatively. Creativity is a process and rule followers are generally more successful in creativity sessions. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- CEOs Need to Review Their Top Teams
- CEOs may strive constantly to improve their companies, but they often overlook a major problem area close to them -- their top management teams. Many top management teams, be they designated as an executive council or a C-Suite, often are dysfunctional but the boss doesn't realize it....
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Get Committed to Employee Engagement
- If you're a manager, you've likely heard a lot about employee engagement. There's a reason for that. Employees who are motivated, excited about their jobs, and enthusiastic about their companies are more productive and can help boost the bottom line. They also stick around longer. Example: DHL...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd, Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you and the question and answer will be conducted electronically. Operator Instructions. And we will take our first question from Matthew Heimermann with JP Morgan. Matthew Heimermann - JP Morgan Good morning, everybody. Michael D....
- Earnings calls 2008-07-23
- Paulson Makes Himself Available and Controls the Debate
- Say what you will about the current financial mess on Wall Street, you have to credit Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson for making himself fully available to the media despite the crushing responsibilities and obligations he must have. He was on four Sunday talk shows yesterday and did countless other media...
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- 51job Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions We’ll go first to James Mitchell with Goldman Sachs. James Mitchell - Goldman Sachs Thank you for taking the question. Just in terms of the corporate training business and the other HR revenue, could you talk about the margins you experience on...
- Earnings calls 2007-08-09
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