October 2008

Does Optimism Make You Stupid?

October 30, 2008

Ask anyone who knows me, when you deal on the topics I’ve chosen to speak on (Using Negativity and Generational Changes) you need to research constantly. Too many people feel (not know, but feel) that negativity is horribly useless and of no value, so I have to back up my presentations with facts and research. [...]

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Watercooler replaced with Facebook?

October 29, 2008

How do we keep a generation of workers, who have seen faceless companies’ layoff their parents en masse after years of loyalty, loyal to us? If their parents, who worked hard only to see the unemployment line or find work elsewhere, didn’t get the loyalty from their company, why will this new generation look at [...]

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Big Milestone and New Training Program on Generation X and Y

October 28, 2008

Sometime this morning, the blog hit 30,000 hits! Thank you to all of my loyal readers and to the new ones that continue to subscribe to my blog feed. To celebrate, I am also premiering a new training program: Generation X and Y: The Xs and Os of Recruiting, Managing and Retaining the New Workforce [...]

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Monkey Monday: Monkey Mischief in Florida

October 27, 2008

This chilling tale of monkey mayhem from Punkeys: What is the punkeys’ latest tactic? Become an economic drain to humans! Apparently in Plant City, FL (Occupied Territory) escaped monkeys are stealing feed and killing tractor batteries. From Tampa Bay Online: Ray Clark first noticed corn vanishing at an alarming rate from deer feeders on his [...]

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Helicopter Parents Landing on Recruiters

October 24, 2008

Tammy Erickson wrote a very interesting piece about how involved parents are becoming in the recruitment process for Business Week: Like it or not, parents are an inevitable part of the process of recruiting members of Generation Y. Most members of this generation seek their parents’ input on key decisions; virtually no Y will accept [...]

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Responding to Search Terms: Biased Information

October 22, 2008

Once again, I reach into the electronic mailbag like search engine where I help hapless visitors to my site get the answers that brought them here in the first place. what will a monkey need to survive? – I would gladly answer this in specifics but then the monkeys would know and any help to [...]

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Profile in Negativity: Warren Buffett

October 21, 2008

I’m presenting my Negativity Workshop today so a brief posting. After reading this interview about Warren Buffett, I have concluded he is a master negative thinker! You can read the entire article here at CNN.com but I wanted to post the most important part of the article: CNN: What would he say about coping with [...]

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Too Positive for One’s Own Good?

October 20, 2008

More and more newspeople are coming to understand that negative thinking has it uses. This time, they quote John Mayer of the University of New Hampshire (Go Wildcats!). Must be something in the air up in the Granite State that makes people more insightful! J From The Economic Times: As economies around the world threaten [...]

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Vote for Best Business Blog

October 18, 2008

Voting has started now for 2009′s Blogger’s Choice Awards. Click on the pic, sign-up and vote! Tweet

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4 Things About Gen Y

October 16, 2008

I came upon this article titled “4 Things You Might Not Know About Generation Y” and had to comment. I’ll post some excerpts and make my points as I go. From ere.net: Sure, Gen Y is voting for Obama, but this doesn’t mean they are trailblazers. In fact, they are, for the most part, living [...]

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