I paid off my mortgage this week at the age of 50. Several people said I should blog about how I did it, in an effort to help others. My strategy was as follows:
Buy a house in a
As recently reported in Forbes, $162 billion was spent in 2012 in the United States on corporate training—in what Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer calls the “the great training robbery.”
Beer says money pumped into leadership and management training
Verizon announced on Monday that it would buy Yahoo’s operating businesses for $4.83 billion. Acquisitions almost always benefit the shareholders, but what about the employees? Many times it means the closing and combining of offices, the elimination or sell-off of
A new study by The Conference Board of Canada reports that only 27 percent of employees in Canada are engaged and employee engagement scores have remained stagnant since 2010.
“Despite evidence of employee engagement’s impact on business outcomes, workplace engagement
Businessolver, a leader in cloud-based benefits administration technology, recently identified a gap that exists between CEOs and employees in how best to inspire workforces, and keep people engaged, productive and proud. The study found that 60 percent of CEOs view
TheLocal.com, an English-language news network in Europe, recently reported that a driver and gardener employed through Spain’s local General Confederation of Labor union had been collecting pay without going to work for 15 years.
The town’s human resources department opened
Millennials are just the worst. It’s all over the media. Born between 1980 and 2000, they won’t leave their parent’s house. They job hop. They are strapped with debt. They are entitled. They are self-absorbed. In my opinion, these are
It’s no secret that our world faces a global leadership crisis. It’s missing in government, politics, education, corporations, local communities, and everywhere else you can image. Case and point – 50 percent of the companies surveyed for Workplace Trends’ Global
The winning bid for an annual charity lunch with Warren Buffet, the most successful investor in the world, came in from an anonymous bidder at $3,456,789. The winner may invite up to seven friends to the lunch, which will be
Bloomberg just announced the best CEOs, as rated by employees:
Bob Bechek – Bain & Company
Scott Scherr – Ultimate Software Group
Dominic Barton – McKinsey & Company
Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
Jeff Weiner – LinkedIn Corp.
These