These are indeed strange and turbulent times. Health care reform has ushered in a whole new generation of unknown government policy. Unemployment remains high and isn't likely to subside anytime soon.
My thanks this month to Vistage/TEC member Mike Harris of Harris Consulting LLC for some great insights on hiring online marketing managers. He's right on.
Not tying performance reviews to pay raises is a sore spot for me, and has been for many years. I thought that in these times of tough but enlightened management, this dinosaur practice was behind us. I'm sorry to report it isn't.
It's still early in the year, so it's only fair for CEOs, company presidents and executive leaders to ask: what things do we know for sure about 2010, and what's really just pure speculation?