Most organizations of size conduct regular customer and employee satisfaction surveys. But they don’t ask the most fundamental question of all: do you trust our company?
This is a surprising omission because mutual trust throughout the value chain(s) should be the foundation of every enterprise.
So why don’t we routinely ask our colleagues and partners if we [...]
An effective recruitment process for interim managers is very different - or should be.
And there is a ‘killer’ job interview question that can quickly sort the interim wheat from the chaff.
Economic downturns always promote the importance of interim management, as more organizations and individuals look to the interim market for quick fixes.
I am seriously interested in the dynamics of social networking so I have just issued a Twitter challenge: what is the future of the CIO? – in less than 140 characters with tag #ciofuture
The results, or non-results, will be interesting and I will report back soon.
Let’s admit it, we all know that the IT job sector is shrinking faster than you can say: “Return on Investment.”
Very few companies are recruiting technology staff at the moment and it seems that, for the foreseeable future, more and more businesses will continue to downsize, shedding many good staff in the process.
For those who [...]
We need to make sure that the principle of “give and take” is not always demonstrated by the employee giving and the management taking.
If you’ve ever seriously considered dropping out from the rough and tumble of the corporate world, you might have looked at buying an established small business such as a pub or a [...]
TGI Friday: too much weekend working?
We all need to look at our work schedules and see if we are doing ourselves more harm than good, by slogging away seven days a week.
We need to get out more
We need to get out more. The credit crunch has affected attendance at industry events and this will have a longer term effect, because getting out of the office is an important part of our personal, professional and organizational development.
My own observation of events in the UK (and reports from the U.S.) show that great [...]
It looks like the MOD has yet another poster child for The Trillion Dollar Bonfire. The latest Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts make sorry reading; for a number of reasons, not the least being the following damning statements:
“It is difficult to exaggerate the magnitude of the failure of the Joint Personnel Administration programme” and: ”The lack of clarity [...]
Fall off in business levels, may be due to the financial recession but we must also recognise that reduced personal productivity, due to worry, is now a major risk to organizational performance.
These are turbulent times and many people are uncertain of their future employment. This will mean that their minds are increasingly on the job, but mostly [...]
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