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John Agno — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:14:31 -0500

A Watson Wyatt Worldwide survey in mid-October showed that 26% of employers were planning layoffs or other reductions in force in the coming 12 months. Automakers, brokerages, retailers, airlines, home builders, banks, newspapers and countless other ailing industries are slashing staff. Your job could disappear tomorrow. Getting ready for your next career transition should be part of your workday schedule today. Yet, 46% of U.S.

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John Agno — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:34:12 -0400

Perhaps, a more wholist approach is warranted... Several things need to happen to get the economy off the slow-growth track. First, the private sector in the U.S. must concentrate on generating more productivity gains at home. In addition, U.S. companies need to focus on creating more innovative goods and services that can be produced in this country and shipped abroad.

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John Agno — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:29:05 -0400

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John Agno — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:28:24 -0400

Do Career Fairs Work for Executives?

John Agno — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:19:20 -0400

As Americans fall victim to layoffs and downsizing, they're flocking to career fairs, causing long lines and exhausting hiring managers whose booths are overflowing with candidates. Automakers, brokerages, retailers, airlines, home builders, banks, newspapers and countless other ailing industries are slashing staff. If you haven't lost your job yet, it could disappear tomorrow. Getting ready for your next career transition should be part of your workday schedule today.

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John Agno — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:57:18 -0400

Actually, they are fighting for votes from many undecided boomer women. White women age 45 to 64 are one of this year's most hotly contested voting blocs, evenly divided between Barack Obama and John McCain, and wide open to being pulled either way, according to a recent Associated Press-GfK poll. A sizable 44 percent of them remain persuadable--that is, either completely undecided or favoring one candidate while conceding they may change their minds. That's bigger than the 33 percent of all voters still persuadable!

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John Agno — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:23:49 -0400

Good leaders don't waste their time in "dressing dead people." "Jacked Up: The inside story of how Jack Welch talked GE into becoming the world's greatest company" by Bill Lane (McGraw Hill) is a book about what the author and Welch did to make communications better at General Electric (GE).

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John Agno — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:17:12 -0400

With the economy sinking into recession, companies around the U.S. are slashing workforces. As boomers begin their involuntary retirement, indications are that the weak economy is squeezing exit packages. David Broman, CEO at compensation adviser Syzygy Consulting Group, says his firm's annual survey shows "a significant pullback in what [companies] are willing to pay outgoing employees during downsizing."

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John Agno — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:13:21 -0400

'Good times' don't last forever....yet, people want to believe they do. Like the turkey who believes good times are common place until the third week of November, most people expect the good times to roll on. And so, they only see what they are looking for. Even their stockbroker won't tell them that "when in doubt, get out." Yet, if you understand that there are business cycles, you look for the unexpected and thus see the unexpected when it surfaces....long before others do.

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John Agno — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:18:36 -0400

How do great leaders communicate? is an important question, especially in times of transition. "Jacked Up: The inside story of how Jack Welch talked GE into becoming the world's greatest company" by Bill Lane (McGraw Hill) is a book about what the author and Welch did to make communications better at General Electric (GE). What Lane did, and still does, is observe. He can see what works and doesn't work, and spots the elements that make a presentation a triumphant success, and those that spell disaster or even career death.