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Reasons People Choose to Work For Your Company--and Stay!

While paying highly competitive salaries may seem like a way to prevent high turnover of a workforce, many other factors are involved to create employee loyalty. And with the 5-year retention rate of employees down to 52.8% (from 55.4% in 2007), here are a few other factors to review that help other...

Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 11-01-2008
Are You an Agent of Change?

"True change agents have a track record of seeing around corners, and their visions of the future will not let them rest." This statement from Jack and Suzy Welch (BusinessWeek, Oct. 20, 2008) illustrates a major factor that makes change agents so much different from their peers. They believe...

Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 10-22-2008
Managing in Tough Times

One side of leadership that has its own importance is how you manage during the bad times. Everyone can smile when things are going well, but the true mark of your leadership is how you respond during times of crises. Jack and Suzy Welch offer 4 points for leading during tough times (BusinessWeek, Oct...

Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 10-08-2008
Managing Differently for Gen X and Gen Y

Here are some interesting traits to consider as you manage your GenX and Gen Y employees (BusinessWeek, Sept. 1, 2008): Technology: Gen X: Keep it up-to-date and motivating; music at work, Blackberrys, IM and fast computers Gen Y: Encourage suggestions and don;t fear change; more comfortable with technology...

Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 08-18-2008
Innovative Companies Outperform the Market

Innovative companies usually outperform both the S&P Global 100 and S&P 500 indexes, according to BusinessWeek (June 16, 2008). some of those top companies include (with stock return): Microsoft, 12% Apple, 83% Nokia, 35% Research in Motion, 51% Google, 53% Hewlatt-Packard, 35% Nintendo, 77%...

Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 08-14-2008
Do Your Decisions Match Modern Times?

There's the way it's always been done. Then there's the way that takes advantage of current perspectives and trends. What path does your organization follow as it executes strategy? Take the case of Hasbro, which learned a lesson in the way it handled its online version of Scrabble. Facebook...

Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 08-12-2008
Escalating Costs Changing How Business Gets Done

Average airfare has gone from $474 a year ago to over $550 today ( BusinessWeek , June 2, 2008). And with the economy trying to decide its course, many organizations are cutting one of their largest costs--travel. Some companies have cut it by as much as 50%. So how can you stay in front of your customers...

Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 06-29-2008
People are Hard Wired for Distractions!

Research by Basex indicates that distriactions consume as much as 28% of a person's workday, costing American productivity to the tune of $650 bil annually ( BusinessWeek , June 23, 2008). Further, Gary Marcus, author of Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind , says that humans are interruption...

Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 06-19-2008
What's Age Got to Do With It?

To paraphrase an old Tina Turner song, today's work environment has adjusted to an aging Baby Boomer generation with open arms. Organization's need to retain the intellectual capital provided by older employees, and that same group wants to continue working for varied reasons such as continued...

Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 06-15-2008
Boomer Retirement Trending Unexpectedly

Remember all the press about the 78 million baby Boomers who would begin to retire en mass, and how organizations needed to gear up its strategy for replacing that talent, and how businesses needed to be prepared to meet the surging market demands of an exploding retirement population. Well it looks...

Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 06-05-2008

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