The Obama campaign has a new answer for the wealthy who complain about the candidate’s plans to raise their taxes. Barack Obama isn’t going to do it for income redistribution or to play populist politics or even to fund the increasingly gaping hole in government financials, according to the new tack. Instead, he is doing [...]

I believe that something extremely important will be happening in Australia as a result of their national franchise inquiry.

Something that will rock the industry, all-around the world.

I have no insider information nor any special plans. What I think or do is laughably unimportant. Don’t ask me to show a basis for this hunch because I [...]

Published:
April 14, 2008

Author:
Martha Lagace

If there is one job that many software analysts and programmers cannot stand, it is testing software on the path to launch. The grinding concentration and repetitive nature of the tasks serve to drive many techies around the bend.
Testing—due in no small part to the resistance it meets in some cubicles—is [...]

What can managers do to increase employee commitment and engagement in their companies?
My good friend, Judith Bardwick, just wrote a book about the answer to this question called “One Foot Out The Door, How to Combat The Psychological Recession That’s Alienating Employees And Hurting American Business.”
I love her work and asked her respond. Here is [...]

Finding a focus is the mantra for corporations. Most organizations expend time and energy to identify and focus on a core product or service and not dilute their efforts with other activities. Marketers narrow their messages to a specific audience and promote products via media aimed at that audience. One of the inherent benefits of [...]

Habit and tradition are useful in many ways. They make it much easier to know what to do and they subconsciously steer us along paths that have worked in the past but may not work so well anymore.
Recruiters, perhaps more than some other professionals, seem to be married to traditional practices. Most recruiters still require [...]

Acres of print, and a ton of trees, have been used up in the past year on the subject of the new China Labor Law. It goes into effect on January 1st 2008.
As is common with Chinese laws, there is often enough space between the lines of the text to drive a coach and four horses [...]