As promised, today I’m going to talk about situations I’ve seen in companies where employees were taken care of and where they werent’ and the consequences of those actions. My first thought turns to a company I worked with some years ago where the employees were all treated as family. No, everyone didn’t make as [...]
My son had a baby the other day (actually it was his wife who had the baby, he just did the cheerleader thing.) That night his wife called him to say they had received flowers and a teddy bear from someone she didn’t know. It turns out it was from a company my son had [...]
Everything we do in life requires some type of communication. We communicate at work. We communicate at home. We communicate when we recreate. In fact, the only time we're not communicating is when we're sleeping. Most of us, I'd say, are expert communicators by the time we're in junior high. We've had years of experience [...]
How much does it cost you to find a new employee — especially a key employee? If you use a recruiter, you know your costs (and they can be brutal.) But then, of course, after you've paid the recruiter there are the costs associated with spinning up the new employee so she's working at full [...]
For the last 15 years I have been a huge fan of “work from home” programs. They are good for the employee, good for the employer and good for business. I remember the first time I really considered having / letting employees work from home. Our business was growing like a weed, and we were [...]
Have you ever heard anyone say, “I’ll be happy when I get get out of school (or when I get a job or a promotion, or a when I get a new car, house, etc. or when the kids are out of diapers, or when when the kids are grown and gone and it’s just [...]
I’ve been thinking today of a small business owner I know who, by almost any standard of measure, would be considered successful. He knows little about marketing, advertising, finance and most of the other disciplines you would associate with being successful in business. What he is, is a good, honest, likable person who is an [...]
Yesterday I commented that I’d rather hire a person who’s a hard worker over a person who’s very talented and less hard working. I still stand by that remark, but it set me thinking about what it is I really want when I hire a new employee. Then I came across this post by Seth [...]
Over the years I’ve had countless employees sit down with me and ask for more money. Some of those people got raises and some didn’t. Often, the difference was the attitude (which influences the work ethic) and the paradigm of the person. My dad always used to say if you’re not part of the solution, [...]
I have been watching the news channels all day with their discussion of the work of Dr. Martin Luther king. I have to say I respect anyone who’s willing to give their life for what they believe. MLK worked tirelessly for years in a cause he believed in his heart was right (and history has [...]