The sexual harassment stories involving Uber and Harvey Weinstein have been shocking but, as watching the news shows, not at all unusual. This evening came word that John Lasseter, top animator at both Pixar and Disney Animation, is out the door on leave for what he called “missteps.” As with so many other high profile cases […]
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Do your employees like working at your company? The answer to this question is probably related to the kind of company culture you’ve created. If company culture seems like too much of a “touchy feely” concept for you to worry about, it shouldn’t! After all, the kind of company culture you create is directly related
If you want the best small business team, you need to create a culture that’s going to attract top talent. That’s no small feat. But it can be made easier with expertise from business culture experts. An upcoming Twitter chat can help you glean insights from some of those experts and others in the small
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Unemployment is at an all-time low. The job market is now largely candidate-driven, and there are more jobs available than candidates to fill them. For hiring professionals, that means it’s getting harder and harder to find that perfect candidate to join the team. To better understand the job market and the common issues affecting hiring
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Your company is growing fast, you know you should be developing your future leaders but you don’t have a $5 million development budget to send your star employees on that fancy leadership course. Leadership development experts Morgan McCall and David Day found that 70 percent of development comes from challenging experiences like turning around a business,
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Organizations are currently facing one of the largest talent shortages since 2007. In fact, a ManpowerGroup report, indicated that 40 percent of the more than 42,000 employers surveyed indicated that they were having a difficult time filling positions. When they dug a little deeper, the top reasons driving the frustration included: A lack of available applicants A lack
Once a year I teach a class in the MBA program at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. For the last seven years, my charter has been to introduce MBA students to the real world of B2B marketing. This year, I brought a special guest to help me talk about this real world:
Following Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn, one of the key areas where you can expect to see LinkedIn improve is in data utilization. LinkedIn, which now has more than 500 million members, has an unmatched database – they have the professional and educational histories of (almost) all of those members. That sets LinkedIn apart from other
The Internet’s Globalized age has opened up infinite new possibilities for commerce and doing business without borders. It is no secret then why working freelance has become so popular as of late. The decentralized, digital labor market is growing rapidly, and more and more millennials are choosing to work as freelancers over holding conventional day-jobs.
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An advanced college or graduate school degree used to be a major asset, but the realities of today’s fast changing business climate require a staff with deep skills and ability in rapid learning and continuous development. Specified knowledge still has its merit, but organizations that solely rely on yesterday’s knowledge won’t be around very long.
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