It’s a Flat World After All 2

When Christopher Columbus said his intention was to sail around the world everyone assumed that he meant on a horizontal plane as in “the world is flat.” Not up, down, around and over which was inconceivable, ridiculous. Everyone wanted to back the illustrious adventurer as he charted a new course to India and the treasure-laden ...

Just-In-Time Posting, Jack

Today, John Sumser claims on interbiznet that he has been waiting nearly fifteen years for someone to come along with a method for bringing recruiting into the same shape as the rest of the modern organization adding there’s been no one who fully understands the implications of Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma and/or Lean ...

India Stealing Jobs? 3

I suspect in the coming weeks we are going to hear a lot more talk about India and the continued outsourcing of U.S. jobs. On the one hand I think the types of position that will be outsourced to India will change—salaries in India are inflating annually at a rate 15% among IT professionals for example, making ...

Ambulance Chaser

I got this email from LeadershipIQ in my box this morning: “Poll: Enron and Corruption Ken Lay, the former CEO and Chairman of Enron died yesterday.  Leadership IQ has launched a poll to measure your views on the convicted former CEO.  Take 2 minutes and make your views known (only 10 questions).  This poll is ...