Did U.S. Companies Take Lessons from Wall Street on Arrogance During the Great Recession?
Hang on employers… you may lose as much as 79% of your workforce when the economy turns around. That’s almost 8 of every 10 employees who intend to jump ship as soon as they can at a cost of billions employers – or so says the research. Stick It to Their Employers According to Ron […]
Is Your Business Culture Zombied And A Ticking Time Bomb?
Copyright TIGERS Success Series By Dianne Crampton To answer this question, you need to look no farther than “actively” disengaged employees who are skulking around you workforce waiting for the opportunity to move elsewhere. Much like the zombie portrayed in horror films, these employees moan, groan, and seek out other employees with the intention of […]
Chronic Shortage of Qualified Workers Looms for Minnesota Manufacturers
Minnesota’s manufacturers remain confident in their firms’ futures, as solid revenue, profitability and capital expenditure projections hold steady for the second year in a row, according to The State of Manufacturing®, a major survey research project sponsored by Enterprise Minnesota and partners. From a financial perspective, 82 percent of executives say they are confident about […]
Is Executive Leadership Team Development on the Rocks?
By TIGERS Success Series In days past, being a supervisor put you in the fast lane for more autonomy and the head of the line for climbing the corporate ladder. A new survey finds that while workers want overall success, none want to be a corporate executive. In a survey of over 1,000 people, more […]
Santa Clara University Offering a Minor for Entrepreneurs
To meet the growing national demand for entrepreneurship education, the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University has created a new minor in entrepreneurship. The minor in entrepreneurship is open to students from all three undergraduate schools—the Leavey School of Business; College of Arts & Science, and the School of Engineering. Students must take […]
FORTUNE Names SAS to 2012 Best Companies List
While some companies are struggling to make ends meet others are excelling. What separates the strugglers from successful companies? Last week SAS, the business analytics leader, was named number 3 out of 100 champion companies that made FORTUNE magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list in theUS. This is not a single achievement. This […]
50 Fastest Growing Companies Focus On Building Great Relationships
Based on 10 years of empirical research involving 50,000 brands, Millward Brown and Jim Stengel developed the list of the world’s 50 fastest growing brands. These companies built the deepest relationships with customers and achieved the greatest financial growth from 2001-2011. The study, which forms the backbone of the new book, GROW: How Ideals Power Growth and […]
26 Annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Kick Off
It is that time of the year for recognizing leadership achievement. This year the coveted Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program celebrates entrepreneurs who accounted for 19,000 jobs and $7 billion in revenue during 2011. This is good news for a year ending with a dismal unemployment record. Yesterday Los Angeles Mayor Antonio […]
Job Predictions for the 2012 Workforce
A study released in December by Randstad delivers new insights on employees’ attitudes about career and job prospects for 2012. Almost half of workers surveyed, 48 percent, believe their companies will cut benefits in the New Year and 41 percent believe their companies will lay off workers. However, 74 percent of US workers agree that their […]
How to Improve Work Communication & Reduce “Crushed Culture”
Copyright TIGERS® Success Series by Dianne Crampton According to a recent Gallup poll on employee engagement: Seventy-one percent of American workers are ‘not engaged’ in their work, meaning they are emotionally disconnected from their workplaces and are less likely to be productive. This trend remained relatively stable throughout 2011. It has been no secret for […]
