Ideas

After living in this coastal condo complex for a few months, I was asked to serve on the condo board. If you've ever served on such a board, you know it is not entirely a delightful experience.

Some time ago, I offered up in these pages a few guidelines to follow when attempting to gain access to executives. The gist of that piece was that you'll have more luck if you think about executive access in terms of "confirming alignment" more than "making the decision."

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.

Employers now have the same opportunities that general managers do in professional sports.

The pool of available, experienced free agents is at an all time high. There are engineers, financial analysts, human resource and salespeople in the job market who could have an immediate impact on your company.

In the April edition of the Harvard Business Review, authors Heike Bruch and Jochen I. Menges offer the results of a nine-year study which identifies the increasing phenomenon of organizational burnout.

Rite-Hite Co. LLC 8900 N. Arbon Dr., Milwaukee Industry: Dock lifts and safety systems, related industrial products Employees:...

We live in a world of rapid change. From the economy to technology, many aspects of our lives have changed and will continue to experience dramatic change.

I've often pointed to the handful of dirty little secrets that exist within most sales teams.

Well, sales leaders have a few secrets of their own.

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.

In-fighting. Stonewalling. Grandstanding. We are all painfully aware of these problems in our political system. As outsiders looking in, we can see how subversive behaviors like these impede progress and keep the nation's work from getting done.