Attend i4cp’s Forecasts for the 2009 Workplace Webinar
There is no question that 2009 is going to be a challenging year for employees and companies alike. Leaders, managers and HR professionals are going to have to work harder than ever to keep their workforces engaged, motivated and productive. Still, in times like these, the productivity of the...
Leadership, Crisis and Culture: A Real-Life Simulation
In my last blog, I made the statement, "If what is being written about Cisco is accurate, it appears to stack up very well against the eight cultural characteristics that AMA and i4cp have recently identified as being associated with a positive corporate culture." These characteristics are...
Corporate Culture Issues in a Down Economy Podcast
Due to the holidays and a variety of other pressing issues that always seem to hit organizations in December, it's been a few weeks since the last TrendWatcher podcast. Thankfully, Peter Clayton over at got things back on track last week with a new podcast on why companies shouldn't ignore corporate...
The Carnival of HR Hits an Economic Crisis
Peggy Andrews at posted the latest Carnival of HR, which focuses on these categories: Economic changes Legislative changes Personal changes Organization culture Self-assessment The future of HR As for i4cp, Alice Graves' recent TrendWatcher article on is highlighted. Take a few minutes to read Alice'...
The agony, the irony, and the challenges of leading through the current dark tunnel
Banks going belly up. Automakers readying themselves to declare bankruptcy. Stocks tanking. Layoffs, layoffs and more layoffs. The news is so unremittingly bad that it seems the apocalypse is imminent. Even worse, in some ways, is the numbness that has set in, making bad news seem so “normal&rd...
Webinar: Take Corporate Culture to the Bottom Line
In recent months, many companies have scrambled to avoid bankruptcy or to hedge against future losses. Reorganization, cost cutting and layoffs have become common, to the point where many hardly blink an eye at such news. Even Google, which has fared better than most, has resorted to trimming...
Top 5 Priorities for CEOs
Two weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal assessed the top priorities of nearly 100 CEOs from large companies, with a focus on their needs from the new Obama administration. Their top five priorities are (taken directly from ): Fiscal Stimulus Quickly craft fiscal stimulus for the U.S., in cooperation...
Record job cuts - will employers pay the price?
The news keeps getting worse, as last week it was by the Labor Department that the unemployment rate surged to 6.7% percent in November, a 15-year high. The number of jobs lost - 533,000 - was the largest in 34 years. Those numbers would look worse had the 422,000 people who left the workforce...
Leadership in the information age
A list of the top-selling business books for October 2008 revealed that seven of the 10 titles listed related to leadership. Some of the books were guides purporting to help readers become better leaders; others were treatises on some specific aspects of leading an organization. The other three...
Protecting Corporate Culture in a Recession
This is where things get sticky, with many companies stranded in the mire of a down economy that has just this week finally been declared a recession. As the saying goes, a good economy is like a rising tide that lifts all boats. That rising tide helps float a lot of companies, sometimes even those...
