Showing posts with label employee growth and investment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label employee growth and investment. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Christian Artists, Global Talent and What Your Global Neighbors are Buying

Top 10 Classic Christian Artists You (Probably) Haven't Listened
BeliefNet

The Global Talent Crisis
BusinessWeek
In today's complex environment, a strategy for attracting skilled people is as critical as a marketing or finance strategy

"What your global neighbors are buying" - Superb interactive graph at NY Times
from BoingBoing

Wise answers to old wives' tales
MSNBC
The truth behind the most popular (and persistent) health rumors

Bright Side of a Total Financial Market Collapse: Michael Lewis
Bloomberg

How to Never Forget Anything Again
The post shows the four key habits for maintaining a comprehensive system for all your information and tasks

Crisis Casualties Out Looking For Jobs
Forbes.com

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Christian Hits, eHow, Retire?, Child Psychology and Celebrity Rehab

Top 40 Christian Hits of 2007

eHow
How To Do Just About Everything

The Next Big Christian Site?

To Retire or Note to Retire
That's the question for 2008, according to Tammy Erickson . . . BusinessWeek

It's The Economy, Stupid
from Forbes.com. . .The Croesus Chronicles

John Rosemond: 'Why Child Psychology Is Damaging'
from Beliefnet: He spoke with Wendy Schuman, Beliefnet's family editor, about why he believes Grandma's wisdom and the Bible are the best sources for parents.

The Gap In Google's Defenses
Sramana Mitra from Forbes.com

Ghost Towns and the History of the American West

Idol Chatter: Religion and Pop Culture Blog
from Belief Net: Scared Straight: Celebrity Rehab

Retirement With A Purpose
But, only months later, Otte actually started to feel bored. The life of retirement wasn’t challenging. She felt restless. "It was fun, but only for the first six months," Otte says. "Then I needed a reason to get up in the morning."

Friday, October 12, 2007

God Online, Dirty Jobs, Strengths and Crossway Church

God Goes Online
But no single video by any of these user-generated superstars has ever attracted as many viewings as a clip of a little girl wearing a "Princess" T-shirt, reciting the Bible's Psalm 23. That video has been viewed more than 3.7 million times--not on Google's YouTube but on Godtube.com, the site's upstart competitor.

A dirty job, but someone has to get rich doing it
USAToday.com

Debunking Strengths Myths #1
Gallup Management Journal . . . Adopting a strengths-based approach doesn't mean you can ignore your weaknesses

Crossway Church Victoria Australia
Good Church Website

Life's Toughest Questions
Crossway Baptist Church is located in Burwood East, Victoria, Australia. They created this blog to open up a forum so that people can discuss their life's toughest questions. Ask any question you like! No question is too tough!

Digital Rules: the blog
from Forbes: The American Dream And The Gospel of Success

Friday, September 21, 2007

Wage Wars, Green, Religious Social Networks, Hope

Wage Wars from BusinessWeek
Workers—from truck drivers to stockbrokers—are winning huge overtime lawsuits

Religious social networks on the rise

The Guilty Green Do Not Always Recycle
They drive SUVs, throw perfectly recyclable bottles and cans in the trash, clean their bathrooms with — gasp — bleach and think nothing of sometimes blasting the air conditioner or taking wickedly wasteful long, hot showers.

In Greenland, potatoes thrive as seal hunting wanes
CSMonitor.com: Global warming is a boon for farmers and fishermen but a hardship for ice-dependent Inuit.

Hope and Forgiveness
Young girl in famous Vietnam photo now a woman of purpose

Saturday, September 8, 2007

American values, growing up and gettng gray

Reluctant Embrace
Europeans are adopting American values, but slowly and selectively, writes Nesweek Italian correspondent.

U.N.: Americans are the most productive
Average American produces US$63,885 worth of wealth per year, U.N. says

Perpetual Adolescence from Newsweek
In a new book, author Diana West argues that by refusing to grow up, American adults are creating a society without adequate role models for children.

Can a Gray-Haired Lady Find a Job? A Date?
From Newsweek, can a woman let her hair go gray at 50 and still be considered attractive? The author of a new book on beauty and aging decided to find out.

Hey, Big Spenders
from Newsweek, Will the rich save the economy?

Return of the Easy Rider
With U.S. cycling in decline, bike parts giant Shimano steered the industry in a new direction BUT coasters bikes??

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Speed Record, Barna, Faith, Super Crunchers, Mobs and Motivation

75 year old likely set Internet speed record
Her fiber-optic connection could be world's fastest home uplink

Barna surveys Catholics
from the DallasNews Religion

I Learned What It Means to Have Faith
In this 1945 letter, an American soldier liberated from a German POW camp, tells his family what kept him going.

Era of the Super Cruncher
Intuition is losing ground to data mining, a new book claims.

Moms Mabley Agitation in Motion
Moms Mabley was one of the greatest comedians of all time. She is widely regarded as one of the most important African-American entertainers that ever lived and as the first bonafide female stand-up comedy superstar.

The stars' homes away from home
There’s no place like home. But if you’re a celebrity, there’s also no place like your second (or third, or fourth) home.

Get Motivated to Do More With Less
A Colin Powell speech got a BusinessWeek columnist thinking about force multipliers. Here are five ways to get more done with what you already have

Ice Cream Wars
Nestlé vs. Unilever: the $59 billion industry is dominated by two global giants looking to expand in Asia and Latin America

Friday, August 10, 2007

Gallup Management Journal

Investing in People

It Pays to Be Optimistic

The Fourth Element of Great Managing

What Price Car Customer Loyalty

Business Week's Smart Answers

Reducing Employee Turnover
Tips for improving employee retention and correcting mistakes that can lead to costly high turnover rates

Growth Strategies from the Trenches
The business owner who has grown his company to 18 employees shares his advice for entrepreneurs

Improving Chemistry Between Team Members
Behavioral Assessment Tool Helped Get Staffers Working Together More Effectively, Driving Sales Up

YouTube as Marketing Tool

Which Way to the Future?
Globalization and technology are drastically changing how we do our jobs—and that's both a promise and a problem

Selling with Technology
Focus on relationships, not technology, but be aware of the role gadgets and other platforms can play.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Forbes Special Report

Achievement: We all have our own measure of success

Confessions of a (Recovering) Overachiever
Fulfillment leads to achievement, not the other way around

Looking Failure in the Face
We all have a string of ''F''s on our records, whether we acknowledge them or not

Unconquered Peaks, Unexplored Rivers and More!
For the adventurous, there's plenty of virgin territory

Wall Streets Magic Number
How much money is enough?

In Pictures: Great Achievements
From sports and adventure to war and peace, iconic images of exceptional accomplishments

Greatest Athletic Achievements
The 20 most impressive individual athletic achievements of the last 150 years

One Hit Wonders
The mystery of flash-in-the-pan success

An Upside to Inequality?

By paying for performance, companies reward people who really produce