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Yes.  It’s a sickness, a game, a personality quirk that allows you to peer […]

I could use a new one.  Just the left one.  The same one that had the surgery a couple weeks ago.  The “eye booger” as my eye surgeon told me.  You would think for that amount of money they would come up with a more exotic name.  Plus, it sounds like i somehow sneezed in […]

You know I’m a survey guy, it’s one of the services that I most often provide to my clients. Whether annual “engagement assessments”, ongoing “pulse polls” to targeted employees, exit interviews, or work on the customer side of the equation, I know the business, it’s something I’ve been doing now for over 25 […]

In the most current Fortune Best Company issue, the editors provide some “linkage” information explaining the relationship between happy employees and business success.
There were numerous “blue ribbon” companies who showed up on several annual lists with two organizations showing up on seven “best of” lists:  P&G and Microsoft.  Each company was on the Fortune and Global […]

Boy, I need a pithy title for my Wednesday blog.  Rambling Wednesdays just doesn’t have any fun to it.  Hold on, I’ll be right back.
How ’bout this?  A Bad Mingled Wryness.  I got it from an anagram website.  Just plugged in the title of this blog, and out it popped out.  There were a lot […]

It’s interesting to learn what gets the attention of senior executives in an organization. 
The more I think I know, the more I realize how much more I have to learn. 
Wow.  That was deep.  Reread that last line.  That’s why I have a blog. 
Anyway…
One of the issues I constantly deal with is how to engage senior […]

I’ve decided to make my Wednesday post my “ramblings” day.  And away we go…
Schedule Your Heart Attacks for Better Outcomes
Studies have found that patients treated at hospitals on weekends have inferior outcomes when compared with those receiving care on weekdays.  In one of the largest studies, published last year in The New England Journal of Medicine, […]

The net revenues of Wall Street’s seven biggest firms collectively fell 6% last year. Sub-prime mortgage-related losses at the biggest firms totaled $55 billion and erased more than four times that amount in shareholder value.
However the workers that prowl the halls of these seven firms pulled in $122 billion in total compensation and benefits, up […]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has published a list of occupations expected to shrink the most from 2006 to 2016. Cashiers, stock clerks, and baggers are the occupations expected to shrink the most. Each occupation is expected to shrink by more than 100,000 positions. Other occupations that will suffer losses include farmers, sewing machine operators, […]

The unsettling news came out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on January 4th.  The unemployment rate jumped to 5%, the highest since January of 2007.  The news, coupled with the sub-prime mess, has pushed the pundits (economic and political) to begin the recession talk, right in time for our next presidential election. 
Having studied the […]