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Preview Thursday: Let’s Stop Meeting Like This

Lead Change Blog

All of us are spending more time in meetings than we did five years ago, and this trend is expected to continue (Lee 2010). From Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager, copyright © 2005, 2017 by Polvera Publishing, Susan Fowler, and Laurie Hawkins. In the United States alone, there are 11 million meetings daily (Koehn 2013).

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Immigrants Create More Jobs Than They Take

The Horizons Tracker

Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database, which contains data on every new business created between 2005 and 2010 (provided the business has survived for at least five years). For example, whereas 0.83% of immigrants in the workforce created a business between 2005 and 2010, just 0.46% of native-born Americans did likewise.

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Corporations: Lessons from a College Football Halftime

Michael Lee Stallard

During halftime, TCU will celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Frogs for the Cure” which began in 2005 when TCU athletics partnered with Susan G. Frogs for the Cure began the national trend to honor survivors that is now commonplace on collegiate and professional athletic fields during Breast Cancer Awareness month.

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How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View

Next Level Blog

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005.    Look at ecomagination. 

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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% That means some of those women could be on the right path to move into corporate executive positions in the future.

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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. Most forecasters project a glass half full or half empty extrapolation of today’s best or worst trends.

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Quotes to Note from Superabundance

The Practical Leader

Site Seeing for More Abundance HumanProgress Beautiful News: Unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions Works in Progress The Progress Network The post Quotes to Note from Superabundance appeared first on The Clemmer Group.

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