Publications
October 23, 2022
Weekly Report 22-59
WITH EMPLOYEE RETENTION INCREASINGLY BECOMING A MAJOR IMPEDIMENT to business efficiency, profitability and stability, effective leadership can be even more important these days than compensation. Critical employees now expect and demand: (1) Challenging projects with opportunities to improve their skills; (2) Knowing the business goals and how they fit in; (3) Planning their own work... Continue
October 18, 2022
Weekly Report 22-58
AS IF EMPLOYEE RECRUITMENT/ MOTIVATION/ RETENTION WASN’T TOUGH ENOUGH THESE DAYS, our California senate has now set new Regulations effective January 1st, requiring companies with more than 15 employees to: (1) for all job recruitment postings, include the “applicable pay scale”; (2) Provide employees, upon request, with pay scale for the position they hold; and... Continue
October 14, 2022
Weekly Report 22-57
AS Q4 TIME PRESSURES INCREASE, a reminder that the single biggest loss of time and efficiency comes from responding to ‘urgencies’ of others – especially texts/ emails/ social media/ gossip – at expense of tackling personally ‘important’ matters. Reality is that ‘important’ items easily get pre-empted and procrastinated because they don’t always have immediate deadlines,... Continue
October 10, 2022
Weekly Report 22-56
“CURRENTLY, ALGORITHMS AND SIMILAR BEHIND-THE-SCENES AUTOMATION determine everything we see online – from content on social media, to which websites we find on search engines, to which ads are displayed when surfing the web – but major internet companies cannot be sued over their content algorithms, based on current federal Appeals Court decisions.” A case... Continue
October 6, 2022