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Is Honesty The Policy?
Different Situations May Blur Your Vision Is honestly always the best policy or are some things best left unsaid? Can there be more than one version of the truth? When is whistle-blowing the right thing to do and when does it break confidence and trust? There`s a lot...
Don’t Ignore the Dark Side of Personality in Leadership Development
By all rights we should have this down by now. From consultancies and B-schools has come an outpouring of literature on leadership and leadership development, taking different approaches to the problem of turning promising employees into executives capable of taking...
Churn-Over: How One Company Said “NO” to De-motivated and Unskilled Candidates
When Lancaster County's unemployment rate just two years ago was falling faster then Enron stock, one Lancaster City-based business hit full stride in churning employees - to the tune of 300 interviews in a twelve-month period. But the owners of this company decided...
Business As Usual – Do You Have A Business Continuity Plan?
This article was published in Business2Business, October 2001 The events of the past few weeks are a clear reminder that emergencies happen unannounced and rarely at a convenient time. The devastation from this nightmare, which seems surreal and divorced from reality,...
Why Johnny Can’t Work: A brutal audit reveals critical skill shortages ahead
The joke goes something like: Contractor: You need to replace your roof. It has a leak. Homeowner: It’s not that bad. It only leaks when it rains. And so goes the labor shortage. With the unemployment rate threatening to blast through the six percent ceiling, the...
Career Planning: Getting Excited About Changing Your Career
I used to hate Tuesdays. It wasn't supposed to be that way. Tuesdays you see were self-designed to be my ideal day at work. I arrived at 7:30 AM, attended to one or two patients, and then left the office no later than noon. The problem was that I hated what I had to...
Companies Struggle to Define Integrity and Ethics
Hundreds of regional execs reveal their strategic standards for decision making. How uncanny! On the eve of the release of our Report on Integrity and Ethics, the longtime chairman and CEO of Freddie Mac, the president and COO, and the CFO were asked to step aside....
Learn How General Mental Abilities Impacts Employee Turnover
Costly Turnover results when HR executives undervalue mental skills. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch some water. Jack and Jill each had a 5 gallon container. Jack's container was shaped like a jug with a small mouth opening while Jill's container was a pail...
Job Stress Stretches Bottom Line
Supporting Workers in high stressed jobs is the target of a number of new techniques that can improve productivity It costs businesses dearly when employees call in sick at the last minute or even worse, when they come to work complaining and dragging their feet....
3 Factors That Influence Job Interview Success
How to avoid interviewing Dr. Jekyll and Hiring Mr. Hyde Chris joined Best Builders about four years ago. Shortly after a stint at college and a few years of on-the-job training, Chris was hired. She was enthusiastic, personable and showed a positive attitude toward...
