Paying for performance

With lower freight volumes expected to continue through the rest of 2009, carriers are trimming all the remaining fat from their budgets, ... to the company. The use of driver scorecards has been a popular method to access driver risk and training ... , you will get some kickback. Some will perceive that management is using a scorecard approach to take [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 23:10:08

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Don’t recreate the disease to mask the symptoms

Plus Arthur Levitt on banks, Jason Tennert on stocks, George Soros on the bailout Let us not forget the five trillion dollar Bush stimulus package.  Enormous tax breaks, many of them to business backers.  Enormous deficits.  Low interest rates ... and commodities.  The crash of these prices is not because of some natural movement of business cycles [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:29:31

Pros and Cons of Working from Home

I AM a digital nomad. More specifically, I am now a ‘corridor nomad’ or ‘zip code nomad’ — the level of my nomadness mostly occurs within my work campus or within my community. I am not like many of the contributors to this blog who I would consider ‘jet-set nomads.’ No, I no longer get to board the plane before everyone else ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 21:55:59

Great Britain: The “Rust Belt” of Global Finance

Think about Michigan or about Ohio’s Mahoning Valley in the 1980s. Both were famous for industries that were world leaders in their time. Yet, once those industries decayed, large parts of both areas became wastelands of home ... the City of London’s financial-services business on a supposed “level-playing-field” basis, allowing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:10:58

One for the Weekend

One of my duties as Assistant Coach/Goalie Coach for the local high school hockey team I’m involved with is to break down film from the previous ... weeks ago, while breaking down some film around a goal we gave up, one of our student managers got caught yelling some profanities on camera.  I enjoy their spirited following of the team (both managers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 19:27:58

Data Management Emerges as a ‘Power Center’

Have you noticed how many of the important new initiatives over the past year revolve around data and information? We've been seeing a greater impetus to measures such as master data management, service oriented architecture, data integration, business process management, the rise of open source data warehouses [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:20:15

LXer: Traders and Financial Insititutions Should Wake Up to FOSS

Published at LXer: A few days ago, Kristin wrote about Marketcetera's first full production release of its open source automated trading platform. Aimed at hedge fund managers, traders, brokers and dealers, the system is standardized, open, scalable and modular. Ars Technica also points out that over 20 financial institutions have already [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 10:50:17

There Is No Such Thing As Private Losses

Over at the Telegraph, Evans-Pritchard points out that UK banks have 4.4 Trillion dollars in foreign liabilities - twice the size of the UK's entire economy. He argues that: We cannot even do what Iceland did to save its skin. Reykjavik refused to honour the foreign debts of its buccaneering banks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 00:30:57

Reader: Keep hours cut a secret -- until 2 p.m.

A reader who says they're a newsroom employee at The Arizona Republic told me the following in an e-mail:I just had my hours cut from 40 a week to 20, and was told to keep my mouth shut until 2 p.m., so the managers could talk to everybody. Since I moved out here for them -- fuck 'em. You get to hear it first. It's a take-it-or-leave [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 21:03:00

New Report: 30 Million Service Jobs May Be Shipped Overseas

Recent telecommunications advances, especially the Internet, could theoretically put more than 30 million U.S ... are professional and related occupations, including computer and mathematical science occupations ... education or training requirements, including telephone operators, payroll and timekeeping clerks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 20:37:22

A Plea To Unendow The Arts

by Burt Prelutsky For years, I have argued against the very existence of the National Endowment of the Arts. If an artist can’t be self-sustaining in a capitalist country as large and as rich as America, he should get into another line of work. It’s certainly not the business of the politicians [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 14:20:16

Full Stop? Right Start To Close, Taking BabyStyle & Tiny Ride With It

I have to give babystyle credit, they were a trendsetter, even when it came to going out of business. The blog StrollerInfo ... laid off. All but the COO, Logistics Manager, Human Resources and IT. "All of the area and regional ... , my district manager's here right now. Do you want to ask her?" "Uh, sure." "Hi, this is ____. Can I help [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:56:50

John Thain, Then and Now

Chief executives usually don’t remain on their pedestals for long. John Thain took over the top job at Merrill Lynch amid high expectations, a reputation as “Mr. Fixit” from the New York Stock Exchange, and the blessing of every Merrill Lynch employee that sickened of excessive risk-taking under predecessor Stan O’Neal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 14:58:00

Tapping Into Your Highly Powered Brain

Tapping Into Your Highly Powered Brain Posted by admin under Success University If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Picture our brains as Formula One race cars, yes, they have the ability to generate so much thinking at such high speed that is beyond our imagination [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 00:00:47

Safety shower.

Organic chemist Derek Lowe writes about two recent laboratory deaths, including one in which using the safety shower might have made a difference. Whenever I read about safety showers that were or weren't used, I always wonder whether the shower had a curtain around it.  Are people more likely to use it in an emergency [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 19:42:31

Supply Chain Management strategies for Beating your Rivals

by Larry Emsweller Jack Welch, retired CEO of General Electric and management guru, made it clear, “You can’t beat your rivals by following ... be transferred to and when, and then hand-off to TMS (Transportation Management System) and WMS (Warehouse Management System) to make it happen. It is just like throwing information over the wall. Where [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 23:04:00

F.U.C.K. Me

Britney Spears is Having a little trouble getting her new single If You Seek Amy on the radio ... idea. I just hope Britney’s managers do not steal the idea from me. It is mine! Fuck off Spears’ managers. Images via  Source Links that will F.U.C.K. Britney Cute college girl of the day [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 20:29:22

Howard, Phillies still weighing contract options

Phillies assistant GM Scott Proefrock said the team remains optimistic that arbitration with Phillies slugger Ryan Howard can be avoided. ... close to reaching a long-term deal last season and that different thoughts and ideas along those ... about it and understood that it was part of the business. In the meantime, Lamar said Howard [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 18:06:24

Can Windows Mobile Get the Magic Back?

“Automagicly” is a word that Andrew Lees seems to use a great deal more than most people. Mr ... (translation: more like the iPhone). Until then, Windows Mobile mainly was aimed at business users with technology meant to endear itself to corporate information managers. “Everyone who is a business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 18:17:26

Beyond the Global Gag Rule: "The World Has Changed and We Must Change With It"

In Kenya, homeland of President Obama's father and paternal grandparents, abortion is illegal except in very limited circumstances. More than 40 percent of births are unplanned according to the Guttmacher Institute, and one-fourth of all married women want to space or limit births but have no access to contraceptives [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 06:12:52

Change all around

It seems like the inauguration of President Obama seems to have kicked off a lot of changes. Yesterday, Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Herb Kohl, D-Wis., introduced the 2009 version of their Physicians Payments Sunshine Act. Thomas Sullivan at Policy and Medicine gives the details of the bill (recall that Mr [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 19:30:23

Change all around

It seems like the inauguration of President Obama seems to have kicked off a lot of changes. Yesterday, Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Herb Kohl, D-Wis., introduced the 2009 version of their Physicians Payments Sunshine Act. Thomas Sullivan at Policy and Medicine gives the details of the bill (recall that Mr [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 19:30:23

The Economy Needs Corporate Governance Reform

As seen in the Wall Street Journal. In his inaugural address this week, President Barack Obama said "our economy is badly weakened, ... . Private enterprise forms the basis for our economy. It provides most of the jobs we enjoy ... the economy. Reshaping corporate management can do much more. The problem with doing nothing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:12:44

VACANCY FOR HR OFFICER IN ADEXEN OIL & GAS

JOB DESCRIPTIONThe ideal candidate must have a previous experience within the industrial environment ... , develop and implement strategy for HR management and development (including recruitment and selection ... is to devise end to end business pertinent HR policies / customizations right through the staffing, PMS [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 15:35:00

Satyam Employee’s email - Different views

At a time when almost 90% of my Satyam friends are cribbing about the fraud and betrayal by Ramalinga Raju, I have a slightly different opinion ... for many a families. Satyam training was renowned all over India . Their STC training centre created ... friends at Satyam’s three to six months training than those in the four years of BTech [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 15:56:15

Getting Back on Track: Rising early

photo by Michel Filion "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil." (Ephesians 5:15-16) How did you do this past week with your morning routine? I'm happy to report that I followed mine very closely almost every day [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 15:00:04

Making Money in Higher Education

After describing some shameful behavior by the University of Phoenix reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, ... like the University of Phoenix and other major for-profits. These are publicly traded firms. The managers ... for money, but the managers of a for-profit are obliged to screw you over. That could be counteracted [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 17:25:44

How the Computer gets the answer (Oct, 1967)

view additional pages How the Computer gets the answer Photographed by HENRY GROSKINSKY Text by ROBERT CAMPBELL Step by step, ... a problem to set the mind racing or to blow a computer’s fuse. Yet it is enough to send electric pulses flying through the computer’s intricate web of wires. Although we are barely in the third decade [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 02:52:26

State of Thirst, Update

Jeremy wrote in response to yesterday’s post with a childhood recollection of water rationing in California: I remember water rationing when I was a kid in San Diego. We didn’t ration but in SF you did. Once I asked for a glass of water in a Chinese restaurant. I was like 7 or 8 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 17:58:49

Effective Change Management: Building your internal change capability

Change management Seventy percent of all large-scale change initiatives fail to achieve their anticipated business benefit 1 ... the human cost of lost jobs. Companies that learn to manage change and consistently deliver expected ... change management as a business priority2. This recognition of the importance of effective change [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 19:14:00

Woman as Homebuilders: Full-Time Ministry

In conclusion to our series on being workers at home, I wanted to share some resources and final thoughts on this all important topic ... when different seasons may open up various outside opportunities. We are guardians, protectors, managers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 16:28:28

Sales Process - The Secret to Closing More Sales

Most sales training programs that teach salespeople how to sell specific products or services do not mention business problems ... to closing more sales! What is a Business Problem? A business problem is any activity or outcome ... of thousands of dollars per minute in lost sales, lost customers, and lost opportunities.” [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 22:03:03

So, uh

gingerkid: I  just dropped my phone in the toilet.  Is this fixable? is it an iPhone?  If so, yeah, it can be fixed for a price… but i have witnessed many a young lady talking an Apple manager into free stuff.  Apparently Apple store managers can do anything they want to make sure [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 18:45:30

We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us

Editor’s Note: The following article was contributed by Gerald Spencer and may not reflect the views or opinions of EconomyInCrisis.org. Feedback is welcome. I  really believe that we must preserve the economic miracle that has given our citizens one of the highest living standards in the world [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 01:52:53

WGMD Radio Sussex Community Job Search BLOG

Much more powerful radio show than I anticipated today - Started the program off with a premise ripped from WHAS-AM in Louisville, KY - Have people looking for jobs call in and interview them on the air for an on-air resume ... who are either hiring or may be hiring, callers who are looking for jobs, and some on-air comments [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 18:16:15

Accountability Part 1: War of the Worlds

(Note: I intend to make this post is the first of a five-part series, every Thursday, on accountability as the missing link in new-world, new-millennium, post-downturn management. Tim.) I’m wondering where, and how far, this goes: The virtual world (meaning cyberspace, and working at home, working on the web, and online applications) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 21:16:28

Reputation Management for Affiliate Marketing

Digital Reputation Management One of the best examples of the convergence happening between search engine optimization, social media and digital public relations is online reputation management. This is a topic very ... the need for brand and reputation management continues to increase in importance as consumer time spent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 20:00:40

1/23/2009: TRLD Conference, PATINS Tech Expo ‘09, Immersive Pixies, UDL Facebook Group, DRM Registration Update, BackUp Your Blog and more!

Alright….LOTS of stuff today!  It’s coming at you fast with not alot of explanation to some of it, so get ready! ... to be that of professional development and how it seems that so many teachers are ready for it to be, at least ... is where we are headed with a lot of professional development. Some quick tips and things to try: Zoho [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 01:47:26

Top 10 Strategies for Running a Facebook Political Campaign

-Capital Building Photo- For the first time in the history of humanity, 150,000,000 people are CONNECTED in one place! ... , you can say goodbye to your facebook page too! Pick the Right Team – If someone knows how to surf ... Facebook’s terms of service. If you see fake fan pages or accounts you can contact the Facebook team [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 15:22:09

Introducing our New Recession-oriented Series: “Crisis Management Handbook for the Marketing Director”, or How to Beat the Recession Monster

There are countless alerts about the economic hardships nowadays ... campaign management (based on results per cluster or per individual), is the new benchmark ... . We live in an era of customization and of real-time production - from large-scale retailers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:13:25

China Nears Recession Point As GDP Slumps

China’s National Bureau of Statistics released fourth quarter GDP growth statistics for 2008 today, and it turns out that (according to their initial estimates) the Chinese economy expanded by 6.8 per cent in the last quarter of the year when compared with the same period in 2007 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 13:19:56

Foreclosures

Foreclosures Do the banks have any intelligence ???? I think the banks are holding off much longer these days before they actually foreclose on the property.Whicj is a good thing, however dealing with them to Short Sale the property prior to sherrif's sale is not a pleasant experience [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 01:43:02

Unemployment

Define employment as goal oriented actions for pay. It involves accepting the directives and discipline of the other. Work has a psychic return: the pleasure or discomfort in the doing, the breaking of  isolation in the co-operating work group, the emotional high in confronting a challenge, and the like [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:45:50

Cohen on Justice and Equality reading group (1)

As promised, this is the first in a series of weekly postings on G.A. Cohen’s new Rescuing Justice and Equality. I say “new”, but much of the book isn’t all that new at all and consists of the republication of older material with which the political philosophy community is already familiar [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 05:44:10

IT workers got a raise in 2008, says tech job site

IT workers got a raise in 2008, tech job site says Posted by Andrew Nusca @ 1:36 pm Categories: Offbeat news, Corporate news Tags: Job, Dice ... , Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca Businesses may be cutting the amount ... to the economic downturn. Many businesses have trimmed their IT budgets and cut jobs over the last few [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 21:36:41

Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan

Dear CIGAs, “The battle for Helms-Deep is over; the battle for Middle Earth has begun”! So says Gandolph the Wizard in the second of Lord of the Rings trilogy, “The Two Towers”. Gold has beaten back the Orcs and Uruk-Hai to regain the critical $880 level and must now deal with the Ringwraiths (the bullion banks) and Sauron ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 18:58:00

Cutting Hours and Pay: Hourly vs. Salaried

The economic downturn is showing up in the Dr. Salary email inbox: I am getting a lot of emails about employers reducing pay, or cutting hours, and asking about the legal implications. Here are a few: " you said employers can get into trouble when exempt employees perform tasks normally done by non-exempt employees [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 23:36:09

The Right Administrator Permissions in TFS, WSS, and RS

I tend to forget the right permissions to set for TFS 2008 and its various components. And not all the various permissions are readily searchable on the net. So this quick blog entry is just a reminder for myself. Create Projects in TFS To create a project in TFS you need the relevant TFS permission ‘Create new projects’ which is defined at the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 00:34:31

Jan. 28th in Corvallis: Community Management & Yahoo Pipes

I wanted to let people know that I will be in Corvallis, Oregon on Wednesday to present at 2 different events ... Online community managers are being hired in more and more companies and organizations ... also provide some specific job requirements and skills that community managers need in order [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 19:54:36

Politics Made Simple: The Hands-Off

Sometimes, we work with someone who is not engaged enough ... to recognize Hands-Off Managers They may be (overly) detailed in one particular area ... -Off Managers Keep descriptions and updates short and sweet. When presenting new ideas, present both [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 20:19:35

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