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If what Richard Solomon is saying over at [...]

Modern mom and pop franchise marketing has morphed into a Confidence Game.

Heading into a worldwide depression is the LAST time to invest in any business opportunity.

If you want to spend 13:31 minutes seeing what it’s all about, click here for 1st clip of the movie called The Grifters. And then here for the 2nd 3:31 [...]

It was our good friend Anna Jacyszyn’s penultimate night singing at the newly renovated Ritz-Carlton 2nd floor jazz bar, so we went by last night to hear her. Little had we realized, the band is once again playing in their old haunt on the second floor that has been undergoing renovation for at least [...]

Well, it’s almost time for the 2nd episode of Highway 18 where the teams will battle it out in not one, but two swamps – one filled with gators and the other the home to the Florida Gators.
But before we get there, I wanted to share with you the interviews I did with Jameica Duncombe [...]

This month Harvard Business Review published its list of the 20 most important management ideas for 2008. I enjoyed thinking about this question from a workforce perspective, and offering my perspective on one idea that I believe represents a fundamental shift hovering on the horizon. I hope you’ll share your view – and any examples, [...]

How is it possible that some companies’ human resources departments can act with such indifference that they actually behave in a manner that is inhumane and unresourceful?
In some circles and industries, an increasing trend is taking hold where recruiting departments have resorted to crafting lengthy recruiting contracts issued by newly centralized recruiting departments. In these [...]

Could this be ERE’s first Wiki?
The trigger was an excellent question posed to me by a lovely lady called Sherry Karr, who is a member of the China Talent group. Her question boils down to the difference between the cultures in the Western World and China, and how this affects hiring.
Rather than setting out a [...]

One of the many benefits that FeedBurner publishers will enjoy now that FeedBurner is part of the Google family is a little something we like to call, “more for free!” Beginning today, two of FeedBurner’s previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free. Not in the sense of soaring high above the clouds [...]

Thanks to sponsorship from OpenBand (see Boris’ post on some of the other work we’ve done with OpenBand over the years), I will be heading off to Minneapolis during the second weekend in May (May 8-11) for what promises to be an intense, interesting, productive weekend. Robert Douglass has been hard at work [...]