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The Challenges of Hiring Foreign Workers in Your Business

Lead Change Blog

The 2017 directive issued by the Australian government to abolish temporary work visas meant that small and large companies would find it difficult to hire foreign workers from other countries. Human resource managers say that it is the greatest problem that foreign workers deal with once they have relocated to a new country.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

They ensure their people have access to both the financial and human resources they need to get the job done and cut them loose to do their thing. As CEO of PQ Corporation, I experienced a minor OSHA recordable accident while traveling on business. These leaders never micro-manage. Live your values.

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Life and leadership lessons from Frank Oz

Surviving Leadership

Joining Twitter in December 2017 and using the handle @TheFrankOzJam , Oz has been authentically interacting with people in a way that’s both delightful and stunning. Cherish your elders and those who paved the way: Oz often thinks about the older folks he sees in his travels and encourages us to learn from them.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

Ascension centralized functions such as human resources, payroll, travel services, and finance, thereby streamlining operations and saving costs. TriMedx was so successful that Ascension spun it off as an independent for-profit enterprise, which in 2017 had 1,800 clients in 28 states.