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It’s tempting, in the face of challenging financial conditions to cut-back on all expenditure save for that absolutely necessary for survival. Behaviour designed to enable the business to survive can have self-fulfilling outcomes however, meaning the organisation mearly makes it through and exists only. OK, continuing to trade is a given, but what if this is at read more of Tough times for business – Fight Through The Apprentice returned to our television screens for its fifth series last night; inevitably the program will lead to many newspaper column inches over the coming weeks. What the viewer sees on TV is a slickly produced, entertainment show with as accurate a portrayal of real business as the James Bond 007 franchise has to the read more of The Apprentice Returns How bad does it have to be for you to leave a job paying £27,000 a year without another position to go to? For some this is as risky as abandoning ship without a life jacket. Ok, so the economic position is tough, few would disagree, however, spare a thought for those responsible for managing others, read more of Abandon ship! I’ve written and spoken even more about personal branding and how it can affect your inner and outer confidence. The following is a blog entry from Seth Godin (the internet guru.) It’s so relevant and apt, it’s here in it’s entirety, enjoy: A friend advertised on Craigslist for a housekeeper. Three interesting resumes came to the top. She read more of Personal Branding Twenty five years ago the miners strike split families, communities and friendships. Like many, my knowledge of the dispute was informed by press and television reports. I was surprised to read the BBC incorrectly edited and broadcast footage to show miners charged police lines first. In reality it was the other way, police made the read more of Miners Strike Imagine what life would be like if… * You could feel good about yourself all of the time; read more of Imagine! Incredible! It is reported that employees at the troubled R.B.S. are to receive thousands of pounds in bonus payments! How can this be? Bonuses are normally paid for ‘above and beyond’ performance. Unless I am mistaken the bank has not achieved an exceptional performance unless of course we resort to sarcasm and suggest ‘exceptionally poor read more of R.B.S. – at a loss! In the red corner: “Why can’t we get cope with any extreme weather conditions in the UK?” In the green corner: “The snow conditions experienced in many parts of the UK in early February 2009 is a ‘one in 19 year occurance’ as such we are coping as well as can be expected.” In credit crunch Britain read more of It's Snow Joke Those who post their CVs online beware! An experiment carried out recently involved researchers placing a fake job advert in a newspaper. It really was obvious this was a fake site, however, within a few days, the website has received 107 CVs, complete with names, addresses, employment history and everything else that a fraudster might read more of CV Security Alert |
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