Facebook Facts Businesses Can No Longer Ignore
By Ira Wolfe Tuesday May 4, 2010Remember when pundits declared the Internet a passing fad and the dot-com bust declared it dead? The same rhetoric is being used today by many executives to pooh-pooh Facebook. Maybe a few facts will crack their resistance and reluctance.
The Fallout of Declining Birth Rates on the Workplace
By Ira Wolfe Friday Apr 30, 2010Birth rates in most developed countries are in a freefall. The United States is on the list of countries that producing enough children to prevent population decline. While that may seem like good news — more to go around — it’s a big problem for economies dependent on working young people to take care of older generations and fund existing programs.
For Sales, LinkedIn Trumps Cold Calls
By Ira Wolfe Tuesday Apr 27, 2010Every business today faces unprecedented competition. The market is teaming with more sellers and savvier buyers. Using social media and social networking sites like LinkedIn to establish can be a powerful differentiator for individuals as well as institutions.
The High Cost of Hiring the Wrong Person
By Ira Wolfe Monday Apr 26, 2010pHiring managers are missing red flags when it comes to interviewing candidates. The result is both organizations and candidates are guilty of making bad choices.
The Art and Science of Retweets
By Ira Wolfe Friday Apr 23, 2010Mentioning art, science and Twitter in the same sentence seems oxymoronic. Some might even consider it sacrilegious. But after listening to a Hubspot webinar recently, I can assure you that an analysis of tweets and, more specifically, "retweets" has the potential to turn the superficiality of Twitter into hard-core business intelligence.
What Roethlisberger Teaches Us About Work Personalities
By Ira Wolfe Thursday Apr 22, 2010"I'm pretty conservative and laid back, but the big thing is to just be careful,” Ben Roethlisberger told reporters in 2005. “I'm not really a risk taker."
The Fuzzy Math Behind Today's Unemployment Rate
By Ira Wolfe Wednesday Apr 21, 2010Fortunately, forecasting unemployment statistics isn’t a matter of life or death. It it were, we’d all be on life support. While we’d like to think that government reports on such highly anticipated and important economic indicators such as labor statistics would be accurate within a few thousand people, it seems that the reliability of these mood-altering numbers are more like the odds we see in predicting Super Bowl winners than prescribing medicine.
What's Your Leadership Style?
By Ira Wolfe Tuesday Apr 20, 2010Based on the work of Dr. Carl Jung and Dr. William Marston, there are four types of classic dispositions (DISC) or behavioral style indicators possessed by most leaders. Below are various types described, along with some guiding principles regarding them. Find out which style fits you best.
Is Your Employee Turnover Too High? Blame HR
By Ira Wolfe Monday Apr 19, 2010The cost of employee turnover has been well documented. The numbers associated with hiring the wrong employee and losing the right one have been a compelling argument for businesses to do something about it. Efforts by many human resource professionals, however, have been cursory, superficial and inadequate.
How Social Media Holds Your Sales Team Accountable
By Ira Wolfe Thursday Apr 15, 2010Ironically, the old adage about "jumping on the bandwagon" is a legitimate reason to be cautious about social media. The absence of consistent and significant evidence of a return on investment (ROI) is sufficient reason for many CEOs and business owners to squash even the remote possibility of a social media initiative within their companies.
