Two months of the year already gone… Time flies when you’re having gum.  Whoops, that doesn’t sound quite right.
Anyways…  time for some snarkiness.  I’m having that kind of week.
An Oracle at Delphi
Yesterday, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York state was scheduled to hear Michigan-based Delphi Corp.’s motion to eliminate health care and insurance […]

I got into a fb (Facebook) argument with one of my best friends in the world the other night on the mortgage bailout proposed by President Obama.  My friend Marc (yes, he also spells it with a “C”) is one of my oldest friends, perhaps because his dad owned a deli in Cincinnati when I […]

Ya gotta love anagrams…
I have the “Listen = Silent” one taped to the “legs” of my monitor.  It’s not a strength of mine.  My first “real” manager, Denise Casey once wrote in my performance review “Marc, God gave you two ears and one mouth, use them in that proportion”.  She also told me that I […]

My normal “A Bad Mingled Wryness” will continue tomorrow when I get back from Pittsburgh…  What a pretty city, even in the rain…
Anyways..
I’ve been working with an organization of a few hundred employees, and is often the case, there seems to be some ill will against supervisors/front line managers from what we at Employee Hold’em […]

A recent national survey shows the disparity between what employers think and employees know… and the results are a wake-up call to today’s executives and human resource professionals.  Consider the following:
While employers believe one in four of their employees are “extremely satisfied”, only one in seven employees feels the same way.
While 53 percent of directors […]

So, you know that I love to read newspapers, although I’m about to cancel my subscription to the Indianapolis Star.  You should never be able to read a newspaper in the time it takes Ann Curry to read the news headlines on the Today Show.
However, I really enjoy the Financial Times.  The paper, as you […]

Yes, I am a facebooker.  It’s fun, and mildly addictive.  OK, perhaps a little more than addictive.  One of the most recent phenomenons on facebook is “25 Random Things”, you might have read about it in USA Today this week, or worse yet, you might have been “tagged”.
So, in the spirit of openness, and since […]

I was speaking to a client yesterday, a small service company located here in the mid-west that I did some employee engagement work with a couple of years ago.  We had tentatively scheduled a repeat of their first Workforce Engagement Assessment to be conducted with their employees in the beginning of the second quarter, we […]

Gotta love “The Google”
An interesting question and answer session occurred in the race for Elmore County Sheriff’s Office before the November election.  The Mountain Home News asked “What do you believe are the weaknesses of the sheriff’s office (if any) and, if you believe there are weaknesses, how do you propose to correct them?”
The incumbent […]