In an article published in the New York times on February 18, 2012 , it looks like Wall Street hasn’t learned much. In the drive for returns, they are jumping right back into the risky investments which they chased previously, only to have everything crash and burn. If you don’t trust the Street, who is [...]
The spectre of being a branch plant country has caught up with Canada in the form of serious lags in innovation. I first experienced this when I was an executive search consultant in the late 80′s. I encountered my first group of shocked and confused research scientists who had lost their jobs at Kelloggs due [...]
The United States faces one of the worst job markets in years – check. Wages are low and bonuses almost non-existent – check. Both fresh graduates and trained professionals are jobless – check. In these hard times employee trust is one of the hardest things to gain as new and old employees try to come [...]
Most modern corporations know and understand that their most important assests and the liveblood of their entire organization are their employees. How important is it then to have effective employee engagement programs in place to make sure engagement efforts don’t fall short? And do such programs actually work in the first place? Kathy Miller explains [...]
I was inspired by this recent article in Business Week that talked about how a high-ranking executive considers two main criteria to be the core of his “leadership philosophy.” Those two factors being – idealism and realism. These two qualities along with one of my own, leadership trust, are what I believe all effective leaders [...]