by Carol Sanford | Mar 29, 2011 | Business Development
Laura Petrecca at USA Today reports that MetLife’s 9th Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends finds employee morale is plunging. In the past 2 plus years of careful budget scrutiny, employers have forgotten to watch “what drives employee satisfaction and loyalty,”...
by Carol Sanford | Mar 28, 2011 | Business Development
Leadership is a much spoken about and highly misunderstood subject. It is most often seen as a role of inspiration and motivation. But leadership that ensures a business’s success and its responsibility is neither of these—it is something very different. Responsible...
by Carol Sanford | Mar 24, 2011 | Business Development
Mar 24, 2011 – This article was first posted at Matthew E. May’s American Express Open Forum Blog. I earlier reviewed Matt’s book, The Shibumi Strategy, with a Q & A here. There is growing appreciation for the idea that social responsibility is...
by Carol Sanford | Mar 22, 2011 | Business Development
This quick article was originally posted in Aman Singh’s columns at Vault.com and Forbes.com. You still sweat the CSR report. You work to stay on top of best practices across the globe. And you are getting CSR integrated into the HR function since Elaine Cohen’s...
by Carol Sanford | Mar 10, 2011 | Business Development
Businesses Need to Raise the Bar to Attract Talent. That is the title of a very nice piece in the Financial Times by Michelle Quest, head of People at KPMG. Quest makes several good points but one in particular jumped out at me. When hiring, “you need to pay attention...
by Carol Sanford | Mar 6, 2011 | Business Development
Fred Allen, Leadership Editor at Forbes, offered a short piece on February 26 called How Entrepreneurs Led the Way to Revolution in Egypt in which he cited a post by Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres’ at The New York Times and an opinion post at Politico co-written...