Social Media? Is it right? What do your customers expect?

Everyone these days is a social media expert, and without getting on a soapbox about that, many companies are asking not IF they should get involved, but how.  I don’t profess to have all of the answers, but fortunately there is plenty of data to see how customers interact with brands.
Recently we saw the 2009 [...]

New Personal Project – Can you help?

I am getting ready to write my own personal “State of the Industry”.  I am feeling a little pigeon-holed in my little HR world.  I think when we know and understand better the industry around us, we can make better decisions.   I will spend a week or so researching topics, and then the next [...]

Are you talking or listening?

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Title: Are you listening or talking?
 
Cuts, Cuts, Cuts.  It seems wherever you turn these days, you are getting squeezed from one direction or the other.  The April issue of Aquatics International even ran [...]

Welcome new visitors

Welcome new readers from StarGuard, great to have you.
Thanks
Josh

Webinar Alert

There is a webinar entitled “Getting a Grip on Gen Y” hosted by Lisa Orrell and Unbound Ideas that some readers may be interested in.  Get the details here

Cool Post

I have read Brad Feld’s blog for some time, he is a Venture Capitalist out of Boulder.  He always has some interesting insight.  I read a post this morning that has both personal and professional meaning.  It’s called “The Rhythms of My Life” and it details his personal schedule.  Good stuff. Check it out here

The Cult of Done.

I was turned on to the Cult of Done by a post on The Practice of Leadership where they highlighted a recent manifesto called The Cult of Done by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark.  The main points:

There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it [...]

Best is not always nice

Sharlyn Lauby has a recent post also talking about managers – it provides a slightly different view then my previous post, but I agree with it as well.  Your thoughts?
See the post here

Advice on Managing Gen Y. Please give me a break..

In the interest of full disclosure, I am somewhere between Boomers and Y, generally in the X era, where we loved grunge, coffee, made mix tapes and spent most of our lives listening to people say how our generation wouldn’t amount to much. 
Now I find myself in management, watching this whole generational relationship thing play [...]

Great New Blog

Andrew has added a great new blog over at Waterpark Leadership .  He has extremely well written and insightful posts. 
I am excited to see this side of the industry getting more exposure.  It has been looked over for quite some time.  In my opinion, solid leadership on the HR side makes safer and better run facilities.
Please [...]