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Dear friends… Thank you all for your feedback and kind comments. Judging from your many emails, I must have hit the nail right on the head with my latest BLOG “Searching for good news amid the storm”. Always grateful for your support. We all could use some encouraging news these days.
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A recent article in a national newspaper (September 20, 2020) appeared with the heading “Cases may be spiking, but fewer people are dying”. Such positive information (buried on page 4) will likely go unnoticed by the public. Fewer people are reading newspapers – if at all – these days, or at least, not beyond the front page. At the same time, the media continues its zeroing-in on the growing number of new cases, the second wave of COVID-19, and any scrap of distressing news they can uncover.
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One of the most challenging tasks in management is the ability to recruit the right candidates. How do you attract the caliber of people who are not only qualified, but are spot on in terms of good fit with the organisation’s culture, vision, mission, and values? Good chemistry between the boss, the team, and the new employee results in a strong contribution over many years—for both parties.
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As governments around the world start to loosen their restrictions and attempt to restart their economies, they are drawing a “road map” to re-open businesses and schools that were closed during the last few weeks of the COVID–19 pandemic.
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With all the doom-and-gloom talk about recession, depression, skyrocketing unemployment, not to mention mass contamination and the deaths of thousands of seniors, little is said about large corporations that are doing well during these difficult times. So, who are the winners and losers?
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The Coronavirus pandemic has taken the world by surprise in a progressive manner, as governments realized little by little the growing real threat it represents. All the media, including social media, are firing on all cylinders with bad news every day. The result is that people are afraid, stressed and worried not only about now but what the future may hold.
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I have been a loyal customer and fan of Volkswagen since I purchased my first Beetle in 1975. Throughout my first career that took me to Italy, Brazil and France, I drove mostly VW cars. Needless to say, I was very disappointed when I learned about the company’s diesel-emissions controversy in 2015.
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In the past year a number of senior executives of large public companies, including CEO’s, have been fired or were forced to resign for sexual harassment or misconduct. A year ago, Google said that 48 of its employees had been terminated for sexual misconduct. The CEO’s of Barnes & Noble, HP and Warner Brothers were all in the news for similar incidents. The latest is the CEO of McDonald’s who recently resigned over an affair with an employee. While the relationship was consensual, the company’s board said this violated company policies and demonstrated poor judgement.
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Labour Day is an annual holiday celebrated in many countries for the achievements of workers. In Canada, we celebrate Labour Day on the first Monday of September which usually corresponds with back-to-school and the unofficial end of summer. In business though, Labour Day is a good reminder for executives and managers as to where their results are vs. budget.
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Franchising is a form of business by which the owner of a product or service (Franchisor) provides a second party (Franchisee) a licensed privilege to do business using the Franchisor business model in exchange for certain fees and agreement to follow a specific recipe.