Looming Doctor Shortage Just TIp of Iceberg?
Stories about the shortage of skilled workers are so frequent these days that many people just take the news with a grain of salt. But an article like the one…
Maximize Employee Engagement To Minimize Job Leavers
“Job-leavers” is what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calls those workers who quit one job without having secured another. The number of job-leavers is…
Job Creep Creates Overworked, Fatigued Workers
An unpredictable economy and persistent pressure on the bottom line has pushed employers to demand workers to do more with less…and often for less. Many companies are running lean…
3 Reasons Companies Must Engage Workers
The need to engage workers, not just pay them, is a popular topic. Just type “employee engagement” into Google and you’ll quickly come up with nearly 6 million results…
TV-Sitcoms-Give-Glimpse-of-Generation-Differences
We tend to remember the good old days with selective memory. We pick and choose what we want to remember…and forget. That clouds our memories and subsequently skews…
Where the Workplace Ends and Social Media Begins
With the ever-growing popularity of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, companies have been forced to struggle with a difficult issue: where to draw the line between…
What’s Coming Next? 3 Lessons Learned in Great by Choice
Jim Collins, in his new book Great by Choice, tells us that “we cannot predict the future. But we can create it.” (That’s actually a Peter Drucker quote, which…
3 Reasons Why Succession Plans Are A Bust
Most succession plans fail. In many cases it’s not because of a lack of trying. Management and human resources are investing more time in succession planning. But they treat…
13 Stats and Facts – Obesity: A Heavy Burden on Business
One in three U.S. adults is obese. If the current trajectory continues, 50% of the population will be obese by 2030. More than 60% of the United States population…
Why Complexity Drives Managers Crazy
Business life has always featured the unpredictable, the surprising, and the unexpected. What’s changed is that the level of complexity that people have to cope with has simply become…