There’s a lot of concern about employment in the U.S., justifiably so, as a multitude of companies have trimmed their workforce to reflect current or anticipated downturns in results. Here are some useful charts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: The first looks at the growth in the labor force over the past 10 years. [...]
The danger of this time is that you stop to watch, wonder about what will come next. The parameters that you assessed the future with — economic, social, political — are all at play. You can’t assume, and now there isn’t much confidence that you can project either. What does the utter climate of uncertainty [...]
Successful businesses are managed. The larger a business becomes, the more closely it should be managed. What does it mean to manage? Is it a call for increased control? Actually, effective management is less about control as it is about identifying an outcome, deciding on a plan and agreeing on the information that will measure [...]