Few things are constant, but management stupidity when it comes to retention is one of them.
Before Wall Street pulled the rug out of under the economy global demographics made the need to cherish workers at all levels obvious.
Estimates of the national shortage run as high as 14 million skilled workers by 2020, according to widely cited projections by the labor economists Anthony P. Carnevale and Donna M. Desrochers.
Then came the downturn and executive retention stupidity is once again running rampant.
Two-thirds of executives at large companies were most concerned about losing Gen Y employees, while less than half of them had …read more

Social media; stories about it are everywhere, but I find the most interesting are about what companies are doing and how its being used.
Let’s start with Twitter. Everybody has heard of Twitter, even people who have no idea what it is talk about it—like my friend’s great-granny. But it’s their smarts in innovation that is most impressive—they outsource it.
Twitter’s smart enough, or lucky enough, to say, ‘Gee, let’s not try to compete with our users in designing this stuff, let’s outsource design to them.’ –Eric von Hippel, head of the innovation and entrepreneurship group at the Sloan School of Management …read more

More sage wisdom from our friend Anon(ymous). I have to say, she (he?) really has a way with words—and a certain subtlety of thought.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. (Just before you trip and fall!)
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. (Assuming you know how to read.)
THINK—it gives you something to do while the computer is down. (It’s really quite fun, worth turning everything off on purpose.)
My Reality Check bounced. (Damn! I am so tired of that happening.)
Everyone has …read more

Considering what’s going on in the world I thought I’d republish a guest post by Kevin Dwyer (I added some formatting) that really resonates with today’s headlines.So, without more ado, here it is…
“Since When Did I Become a Grumpy Old Man?”
By Kevin Dwyer
Something insidious seems to have happened as I have got older. The world as seen through the prism of popular culture continues to be dumbed down. Stupid seems to have become mainstream. This appears to have occurred both in general and business society.
Now, it may well be that I am just becoming one of the grumpy old men …read more