In the summer of 1976, ABC television premiered a game show that became an international hit still watched today. It was called Family Feud and it challenged opposing families to guess the most popular answers to survey questions.
Although it was all in good fun, those surveys revealed a lot about American perceptions and culture. We [...]
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A few years ago a major manufacturing company realized that it was ‘breaking up’ with employees regularly. They weren’t firing the employees per se, and they didn’t have a traditional employee retention problem either. They were a great company hiring great candidates – candidates that looked perfect on paper and had solid-gold references. But the [...]
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Most executives are keenly aware that trust in their brand and their leadership is tightly interwoven with the business’ profit potential.
Earier this week, Bill Catlette of the Contented Cow blogged about “A Crisis of Trust” facing American companies as we begin to look beyond the recession to recovery. He’s dead-on about upcoming issues that are [...]
Disruptive professionals can infect your business much like arsenic affects the human body. They eat away at morale, productivity, employee retention and even your brand reputation. Symptoms start with a headache and end with multi-organ failure if not addressed.
Unfortunately, disruptive professionals are often your highest performers, like top sales people, prominent surgeons or lawyers with [...]
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Yesterday was a great day at SHRM. First of all, New Orleans is a great city and it is great to feel a part of contributing to the re-building of the city by being at this conference and giving money to the local economy. The food is great and the people are too.
Just a couple [...]
This time every year I learn about brackets (actually this has been turned into a science called “bracketology”) and pools. Let me be clear though that I am not talking about the kind of brackets we use when writing or the pools we swim in. As I am sure you all know, I am talking about the famed college [...]
As mentioned in a previous blog post, we are going to keep you up-to-date on any recent or upcoming laws that affect the workplace. In order to do this, we have asked Jon Vegosen, a founding member of the Chicago law firm of Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd. (“FVLD”), to periodically summarize these changes. [...]
I don’t get it! Here we are in the midst of one of this country’s worst economic times and there are still companies out there that either reinforce or ignore bad behavior by their key employees. Have we all gone crazy? Don’t we realize that taking care of your customer and creating a positive working environment [...]
Since the beginning of this year, we here at Perspectives have been very busy. Unfortunately the work we have been doing revolves around layoffs or RIFs. One would have to have no access to the outside world not to notice that companies are laying off employees in response to the current financial crisis. Just yesterday, [...]
There has been a great deal of news, most of it bad, about the faltering economy in the last few months. This will probably be the case for some time to come. So what can owners and business leaders do to help calm their employees. In fact, we now have evidence that communication positively effects the [...]
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