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No matter what you call it, eliminating people isn’t the smartest thing to do as statistics show and any employee will tell you—including the ones who aren’t directly affected.
According to Think Before You Fire in Business Week,
“For companies, layoffs are a quick, albeit unpleasant, way to trim costs, […]
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Sadly, the United States has lost its lead in many areas to Europe, and it seems like another is in the process of falling.
“Last week marked the 22nd anniversary of the glass ceiling’s entrance into our vernacular — a phrase which cleverly described the invisible but extensive impediments […]
Paraphrasing David Hannum (not PT Barnum) there’s a fool born every minute and recent happenings seem to bear that out—only most of the current fools have MBA’s and high level jobs.
And then there are the fools in Washington who for years have told us to trust industry and that self-regulation works to our advantage.
And all […]
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Aside from tax rebates, has there really been strong economic advances under the Bush Administration?In its current issue, Business Week does a quick roundup of this so-called expansion,
“The expansion almost certainly ended in 2007, seven years after the previous peak in 2000. Unfortunately, this cycle has been lackluster, with […]
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Yet another article, this one from Australia, bemoaning the fact that women aren’t showing up in the executive ranks.
“How is it that women, who are at least as well educated as men these days, represent only 12 per cent of ASX 200 executive managers? Why have women been […]
In a post about the repercussions of sexual peccadilloes I said, “I’m also wondering how many other patrons of this current sting will be outed. If he’s [Eliot Spitzer] the only name made public then, to me, something else stinks a lot worse than his hiring a prostitute.”
Although I didn’t see the WSJ opinion piece […]
On the heels of Tuesday’s post I came to realize that every time I write about anything to do with healthcare I find more stuff that makes me want to scream and throw a tantrum. Rather than doing that (it upsets my cats and neighbors) I thought I’d let the steam off here.
I’ll start with […]
The difficulty of getting an appointment to see your doctor (wait time) is the bogyman thrown up to defeat universal healthcare, but the statistics don’t back that up. According a Business Week article citing a study by the Commonwealth Fund,“If you find a suspicious-looking mole and want to see a dermatologist, you can expect an […]
Matt Weeks has held various management positions in the financial services/banking industry, started, ran and sold a small business, ran a successful consulting practice and currently is CEO/founder of stealth mode startup eyeTmedia.
“The idea of some sort of assessment or tax on businesses to fund health care for those citizens who are otherwise not covered […]
The next response is from Al Negrin, a retired CEO whose career ran the gamut from giant multinationals to startups.
“First of all, to provide a social safety net of the type most European and Scandinavian countries do, it is necessary to increase taxes on both businesses and individuals. This of course is a disincentive […]
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