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Wal-mart's CEO doesn't think retail can bring workers into middle class. Costco's CEO doesn't see why not.
Thomas Friedman writes that the technological forces of globalization are making the world flat. Richard Florida's research indicates that the world is actually very spiky - that the benefits of globalization are unevenly distributed globally.
Morale Busters at Work
Google, selected by Fortune as the #1 company to work for, exhibits a culture and leadership that seems more like the biblical concept of a household, oikos, rather than a modern company.
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Like Jason’s mythic quest for the Golden Fleece, the new economic landscape is being conquered less by policy makers, global investors, and multinational corporate behemoths than by legions of modern day Argonauts –
The younger generation use technology more than any previous generation, they use it differently, and how they are using it is generating remarkable changes in society and business. By Dan Wooldridge.
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Juli Ann Reynolds, CEO and President of the Tom Peters Company (Peters is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his classic In Search of Excellence), asks if retirement (and, we presume, death) is the new downsizing.
The World Baseball Classic is just one more example of the effects of globalization, not only on sports, but also on business. Major sports are truly global, leading the way in new business thinking about the role of international talent.
Increasingly businesses and nations need to develop strong local labor markets as well as legal international labor sources, especially in core industries like manufacturing, agriculture, and construction.
Public education is predominately controlled at the state and community levels. If businesspeople—who are deeply dependent on the quality of the workforce—don't call for and lead thoroughgoing educational reformation, who will we blame when it turns out our children leave school splendidly prepared for a future that no longer exists?
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Leadership of our businesses will increasingly focus on the strategic need for talent. The current demographic shift is creating a situation in which the majority of jobs being created require skills possessed by 20% of the workforce.
The National Day Labor Survey (January 2006) found, about 117,600 workers are working or looking for work as day laborers in the United States.
Recent statistics regarding CEO pay have renewed interest in the debate over how much is too much for a companies' top execs. What is often overlooked in the debate is what impact CEO pay has on the company culture.
A c|net reader responds to news that American programmers placed poorly in a recent international competition. And he's not happy!
His newest work is The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need, the first American business book in the Japanese comic format known as manga. (In 2007, he won a Japan Society Media Fellowship that took him to Tokyo to study the manga industry.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns: The Coming Generational Storm
What You Need to Know About America's Economic Future
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Demographics drive economic trends. By 2030 the population 65+ years old will double to 19.4% with 2 workers to support a senior citizen versus 16 today. How will we prepare for this storm as businesses?
You may not want to pursue the retail industry as a career path if you have any desire to become part of what society in this country calls the Middle Class
According to George Washington University's Alcohol Cost Calculator the estimated cost of alcohol problems to US business is around (gulp) $134,000,000,000 per year.
Useful information about workers in the pipeline, courtesy of the Beloit College Mindset List.
Annie Wooldridge
As Dan Wooldridge watched his daughter do homework, he realized that employers were not prepared for the emerging new workforce.
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