I read an article yesterday in Crain’s Chicago Business entitled “America’s Ever-Shrinking Middle Market” where the author Joe Cahill explains that large companies and long-standing brands like McDonald’s, Sears and J.C. Penney are struggling as “ . . . nimbler new competitors are picking off customers.” This is where my story begins . . .
Imagine this scenario: There is a YouTube video of one of your signature products being made in the most heinous way with the most hideous raw materials that has suddenly gone viral and your overall sales are taking a big hit. Your marketing and sales…
As the mother of three millennials (all boys), two who have already started their careers and one that has just started college; I find myself constantly trying to give them advice about how to progress in their careers as well as in their lives. The lessons I think are important are nothing new BUT they are a constant reminder to me that the more things change, the more they stay the same. My best advice to them is the best advice that I ever received – “No matter what your position or role, always be a leader”.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR – had to get that out of the way. I recently got a software upgrade over the network on my phone. It took 10-15 minutes and the phone was disabled during that time. The phone came back on and it went without a glitch. …
Can common sense be the underlying principle for a Talent Management program? Evidently it can and is for successfully managing talent at Netflix. In “How Netflix Reinvented HR” in this month’s Harvard Business Review, former Chief Talent Officer Patty McCord chronicled how the culture was…