By HR world - The HR Industry's Web Resource on December 31, 2007
A select few states have set higher minimum wages than the way-too-low federal standard. Among them is Colorado, where minimum wage will increase to $7.02 tomorrow, a 20 percent higher increase than the most recent federal minimum wage increase. Unfortunately, experts say that the increase will actually hurt the workers with the lowest amount of [...]
Posted in HR world, Human Resources
By Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog @ LeadershipNow on December 31, 2007
While it is true that some people just can’t be lead, more often than not, the situation calls for us to get better. Here’s a Taoist story retold in the leadership classic, Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus:
When Yen Ho was about to take up his duties as tutor to the heir of Ling, Duke of Wei, he went to Ch’u Po Yu for advice. “I have to deal,” he said, “with a man of depraved and murderous disposition. . . . How is one to deal with a man of this sort?”
“I am glad,” said Ch’u Po Yu, “that you asked this question. . . . The first thing you must do is not to improve him, but to improve yourself.”
Let’s all resolve to get better.
Posted in Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog
By mauzenne on December 31, 2007
In this cast, we recommend how to start setting annual goals, and why we do not like “SMART” goals.
Many managers are going through goal setting efforts right now, for 2008. We get lots of questions about goals, and goal setting, this time of year. Sometimes, they’re dispiriting. Managers seem to spend an [...]
Posted in Management, Manager Tools
By Nathan Ives on December 30, 2007
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