My least favorite laws of life
November 9, 2006
Sitting at home tonight, I got an email from Seth Godin about a philanthropic Squidoo campaign that he’s running – he is trying to get everyone on the Squidoo site to do a lens on a single topic on a single day. The event is organized to benefit the Keep a Child Alive campaign. The campaign topic is “My Favorite Things”.
Always the contrarian, I couldn’t come up with a list of “favorites”, so I came up with a different topic – My least favorite laws of life.
Check out the Squidoo Lens I created on the topic, and while you’re there, check out a few other lenses from the series, and help out a good cause.
Our People are Our #1 Resource
November 9, 2006
This is the message that we often hear from many companies out there – repeatedly, CEOs and executives talk about how important their people are. And, while they may believe it, that’s not what the data shows. In The War For Talent, the authors published the results of a McKinsey study that sought the answers to the following questions.
Does your company:
- Bring in highly talented people?
- Develop people quickly and effectively?
- Retain almost all high performers?
- Remove low performers?
- Know who the high and low performers are?
Does your company do these things? How many companies do you think actually do those things?
Read on for the answers…