Keeping Up with IRS Payroll Initiatives
March 31, 2008
Payroll is one thing that every business has to get right — not only to keep employees happy but to stay out of trouble with the IRS (Internal Revenue Service). The laws and regulations governin... Read More →
Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?
March 31, 2008
The April issue of the Harvard Business Review has an article entitled "Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?"Their premise?"Can you summarize your company’s strategy in 35 words or less? If so, would your colleagues put it the same way?"Their conclusion?"Very... Read more...
Tesco Pauses USA Expansion
March 31, 2008
Pausing for reath at fresh & easy (Tesco’s USA stores) We’ve opened 31 stores in 66 days so far this year…now we’re pausing for breath… However, after opening our first 50, we planned to have a 3 month break from openings,... Read more...
Changing The Way You Think About Strategy Execution
March 31, 2008
A revolution is coming in the way that small and midsize businesses can solve the oldest and biggest problem in business.What most business leaders think is their greatest challenge -- really isn’t. All business leaders face new challenges each day... Read more...
Aligning Your Leadership to Followers Identities
March 31, 2008
When we think about leadership, we tend to focus almost entirely on the leader. Yet without followers, there is no leader. Leadership is participatory: leaders and followers exist in a mutually beneficial relationship where each adds to the effectiveness... Read more...
Aligning Your Leadership to Followers Identities
March 31, 2008
When we think about leadership, we tend to focus almost entirely on the leader. Yet without followers, there is no leader. Leadership is participatory: leaders and followers exist in a mutually beneficial relationship where each adds to the effectiveness... Read more...
How to Give Feedback About Attire
March 30, 2008
This cast describes how to give feedback about your employees’ attire. Mark once was asked to adjudicate a discussion between two managers (one new, one experienced). The issue? “Should a manager give feedback about the clothes an employee... Read more...
Coopers Rock State Forest
March 29, 2008
See more photos of my visit last year to Coopers Rock State Forest in West Virginia. The day before I visited Rocky Gap State Park in Maryland. Photos by John Hunter. Related: Nature Recreation Declining - Mason Neck State Park, Virginia - Shaker... Read more...
Friday Links: Editing, Writing and Bad Bosses
March 29, 2008
Every suggestion when creating a presentation isn’t a do or die. It’s a suggestion. Frank Roche of KnowHR talks about being your own executive editor here. And speaking of writing, Recruiting Trends talks about using writing and speaking to... Read more...
The Flu Really Stinks This Season
March 29, 2008
It was an extraordinary feat last fall, but I managed to get all of my family vaccinated against the flu. A few weeks ago, guess what I caught and was completely flattened by? You got it! The freakin’ flu. Vaccinated or not, this years flu season... Read more...
