091125 5 Must Reads Why Employment Lags in A Recovery Employers want to make sure that the recovery is real. Even in the harshest circumstances, key employees weren’t let go in spite of the lack of work so there’s unused capacity available (labor hoarding). During the downturn, employers focus on adding productivity improvements and reorganizing [...]
A short snippet of the actual presentation at the Social Recruiting Summity in NYC. Social Recruiting Technology Adoption Curve by ernestvlog
091118 Five Must Reads Wanted Engineering Supply-Demand Hot Spots The data is a little stiff (no one really works some where called the San Francisco – Oakland – Fremont Metropolitan Statistical Area but tons of people commute to the individual cities). But, the idea is in the right place and this is a move forward. [...]
091104 Five Must Reads Using Technology To Improve Workforce Collaboration As the workforce changes, there are real questions about how you specify roles and performance when results come from teams. There are wide variations in the productivity of knowledge workers. Here are some points of departure for thinking about the coming world of work. What’s [...]
091028 5 Must Reads Friedman on Education “Our education failure is the largest contributing factor to the decline of the American worker’s global competitiveness, particularly at the middle and bottom ranges,” argued Martin, a former global executive with PepsiCo and Kraft Europe and now an international investor. “This loss of competitiveness has weakened the American [...]
Thought for the Day: We’re entering a time where company values is becoming a meaningful issue. The container of culture is best enforced through shared discussion and conversation. The internal company social community is the best mechanism for disseminating culture. Leaders should have public discussions on the meaning of company values. Netflix Culture The folks [...]
Thought for the Day: Treating people like resources. Novel concept. It would mean not using them when you don’t need them. Like Santa Claus in January United Breaks Guitars Here’s what employees mean to your company. When this guy sings his song about your company, it’s not liable to be about your computers or other [...]
090709 Free Links Thought for the Day: Authenticity is a problem in organizational communications,not so much in interpersonal stuff. The audience determines who is or isn’t authentic. That’s the bad news about working with an audience. href=”http://www.scribd.com/doc/17135767/FREE-full-book-by-Chris-Anderson”>Free There’s a new book called “Free”. Just as you’d bet, the whole thing is free and online. Chris [...]
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