Posts tagged: Economy

Sabbatical From Writing

Brad and I are back after a month-long sabbatical where we’ve been working diligently preparing for 2011. Contrary to popular opinion, we did not spend December with our feet up on the desk kicking back in Southern California. We’ve been working hard to improve our entire on-line presence. We’ve got an overwhelming number of new [...]

Thursday January 6th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Featured in Forbes.Com Article on Hiring During the Recession

Forbes.com recently interviewed me about an article on hiring during the recession. You can read the full article at Forbes.com – The title of the article is “Hiring the best of the left-behind”. The article reinforces a few key ideas – especially for small business owners and entrepreneurs: Recession offers opportunity to hire top talent [...]

Thursday July 9th, 2009 in , , , , | No Comments »

Top Strategy in a Down Economy: Upgrade Your Talent

One of my favorite authors, speakers, and bloggers, Mitch Gooze (and an award-winning International Vistage Speaker) recently posted a recommendation on his blog VALUE ACCELERATION (you should be subscribing to Mitch’s Blog in addition to our Hire and Retain Top Talent Blog) about taking advantage of the down economy to upgrade your talent. Vistage International [...]

Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 in , , , | No Comments »

Hiring 101 – Use the recession to upgrade

Brad touched on this subject and I’ll expand upon it. Upgrading your talent during the recession could be one of the most important steps you take as a manager or executive. The recession provides the perfect opportunity to upgrade your team. We’re in one of the deepest recessions I’ve witnessed in over 25 years of [...]

Monday May 4th, 2009 in , , , | 1 Comment »

Pay Cuts For Work

In a recent survey we conducted 54% of the people responding would accept a position for less pay than their previous position. In fact, 46% would take up to a 20% reduction in salary. As the economy continues to soften we will conduct another survey and compare the results.

Tuesday April 28th, 2009 in , , | No Comments »
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