You know the old saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.” It’s a good one. Very cinematic. You can visualize a wee baby flapping its chubby little arms as it sails in slo mo through an open window with a shower of grimy bubble bath.

The essential gist of the saying is, When [...]

QR Codes – barcodes for the Web

This code was originally made by the Japanese company Denso in 1994 for the use in the car industries. By now the QR-Code has advanced to the Asian standard code for mobile tagging. In Japan it is tagged 50 million times daily. [...]

DOL is heading your way with $25 Million for increased enforcement and they expect to generate—from your company and others—$7 Billion of additional revenue over the next 10 years. To avoid getting ensnared in this web of increased enforcement, say attorneys Veronica Gray & E. George Joseph is simple—audit, audit, audit.

Gray and Joseph are partners [...]

In the debut episode of “The Jim Stroud Show,” Jim gives jobhunting tips on how to find hidden jobs on Twitter.

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In yesterday’s blog, Harvard’s Rosabeth Kanter summarizes her five lessons from 2010 worth repeating, beginning with the recognition that surprise and change are the new normal.  That being so, then resilience for individuals is the new skill.  Simply put, resilience is the ability to bounce back successfully when facing stressful or even traumatic experiences.

Experience suggests that [...]

Throughout 2010, as I delivered management training for my clients, I found that the topic of employee engagement kept surfacing.

As we are learning from recent research, the more engaged a workforce, the higher the productivity and profitability of the company. It also says that among the factors that most influence employee engagement, the quality and [...]

So way, way back in the good old days (January of 2009) this little minion was laid off from her job and decided that she was going to come out of the blogging closet with her true identity. Ah, memories. Why did I decide to come out when I did? You see, part of why [...]

The way that you’re managing your presence online (or not managing it, heaven forbid!) is totally and utterly incorrect. You think I’m joking? Your blog? Bad, bad, bad. Your Twitter? Pathetic. Facebook? You’re doing what? And LinkedIn? Terrible. In fact, everything you’re doing isn’t any good.

At least to someone.

Look, I’m no dummy. I know what [...]