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New Year's Resolutions

Every New Year many of us resolve to make changes in our lives, to set new and important goals. We're inspired by that annual turn of the calendar to wipe the slate clean and to write new scenarios f

The Nature of Time

Well, to begin with, time, as we think about it, doesn't even really exist. We think of weeks and hours and minutes and seconds, but these are completely human inventions. Days and years can be scien

Building Value in Your Firm During an Economic Downturn

The drum beat of less than favorable news continues to inundate us at every turn. Whether it's the severe economic downturn or the malaise within the insurance industry day in and day out there seems

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act of 2009

        On January 29, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act of 2009" rejecting the decision of the Supreme Court of the United

Employer Liability Title VII

  On January 26, 2009, the Supreme Court of the United States expanded the types of employee conduct that can trigger protection under Title VII for employees retaliated against after participa

Hire Teamwork-Oriented Employees

Prescriptions to manage the people problems include over-communicating reasons for change, “de-employing” employees who stop adding financial value, incentive pay, peer pr

3 Ingredients Of Absolutely Fabulous Organizational Change

As waves of organizational change sweep across the business landscape, a huge question arises:  What must a leader do to make sure change produces highly profitable results? To find out, I uncovere

Peek Inside Heads Of Amazingly Successful Leaders

Would you like to know what really goes on inside the heads of astoundingly successful leaders?  Here is your chance.  Part of the research for my book Absolutely Fabulous Organizational Change

7 Step Method To Hire The Best

You can use pre-employment tests, two types of interviews and more using this step-by-step method to hire applicants who are likely to be “superstar” employees:   Â

3 Pre-Employment Test Help Your Hire The Best

Question:  What’s the easiest, cheapest and quickest way to have profitable, productive, and honest employees?     Answer:  Hire profitable, productive, honest peopl

5 Ways to Feel Super-Optimistic: Tips for Your Health, Wealth, & Career Success

Nov 7, 2006, 15:45 Optimism is the hidden key to your personal and business success.  Optimists possess a clear vision of an exciting life, confidently work on goals to achieve their vision, a

Organizational Change Management's 3 Key Ingredients

Jan 30, 2007, 16:16 As organizational change sweeps across the business landscape, expert leadership skills are required to answer this question:  What organizational change management methods c

Broker – Beware Potential Conflicting Liability to Both Clients and Insurers

In normal circumstances, a retail or wholesale broker owes a fiduciary duty to his client – the policyholder (we are not concerned here with managing general agents or binding a

Tips for Much Less Stress in Your Workplace

Nov 6, 2007, 15:59 Stress is a hot topic in the workplace.  Some employees get bent out of shape by almost anything.  Other people calmly take almost any sort of situation in stride.   H

7 Tips to Manage Jerks

Dec 19, 2007, 15:48 Leaders and managers must create productive teamwork.  However, some employees love to argue, criticize, give put-downs, and encourage discord and disruptions.  They have poi

Leaders & Hiring Managers Profit from "Birds of a Feather Flock Together"

Sep 26, 2007, 15:19 Hiring managers and leaders use pre-employment tests, job interviews, role modeling and strategic de-employment to increase profits based on the saying, “Birds of a

5 Ways to Avoid Hiring Psychopaths

Mar 13, 2008, 14:18 Avoid hiring psychopaths using pre-employment tests, key job interview questions, background and reference checks, and even their aura.    PSYCHOPATHS IN THE NEWS (& m

3 Games Manager Play – that Result in Hiring Losers

Apr 28, 2008, 14:28 DID YOU EVER HIRE A “SQUARE PEG FOR A ROUND HOLE?”   You can use pre-employment tests, certain astute insights, less laziness plus a shocking re

9 Unique & Amazingly Useful Ways to Evaluate Job Applicants

May 20, 2008, 14:08 Research proves pre-employment tests are the most accurate method to predict or forecast how an applicant may perform on-the-job.  Plus, this is borne out in my 20+ years of res

Grow your Company by Hiring

Jul 9, 2008, 16:05 You can use pre-employment tests and other methods to help you hire obsessive-compulsive employees – when the job requires an organized perfectionist.   I r

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