Oct
04
2008
Late breaking AUS Franchise news via Blue MauMau.
The International Franchise Association, IFA has instructed the Commonwealth of Australia on which laws they should and should not have.
McTurkeys instinctively renounced their citizenship and assumed the posture most likely to please Big Franchising’s head office.
In a predictably subtle grasp of international and constitutional legal matters, an unnamed [...]
Apr
15
2008
One issue that should rise to the top of the corporate agenda in 2008 is diversity — or, more specifically, how managers and leaders deal with it. Diversity has been on the agenda for decades — differences of class, gender, ethnicity, faith, culture, education and sexual orientation are well understood — but diversity has taken [...]
Apr
15
2008
When you’re stuck on a problem, it often helps to step back and look at the bigger picture. You see things differently and discover new solutions. What I ask participants in my Total Leadership program to do is take the “four-way view” – the interaction among work, home, community, and self – and come up [...]
Apr
15
2008
Of all the recent candidates for the American presidency, none is as elusive as John McCain. On one level he is of course a known quantity. His life story we know in part by heart. And since making his first serious run for the presidency in 2000, his face and figure have been familiar. But [...]