WEBLOG Archive November 2008

BAILING OUT THE BIG 3 IS A BIG DEAL

I grew up in Flint, MI, and it has always been a General Motors town. When I was a kid, the city had more than 300,000, high employment and arguably the best Community School System in the world. I left in the late ‘60’s and returned in the late ‘70’s to a place that was a shadow of its former self.

Flint has always been a General Motors town. It grew because of GM, prospered because of GM and now it is close to death because of GM. The community of Flint has seen it all, and paid for it. And the country has helped pay for it as well:

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Nov 26, 2008 4:37 PM

AND THE SURVEY SAYS...

We ran across a couple of interesting surveys at internalcommshub.com recently.

The Watson Wyatt's WorkUSA® 2006/2007 survey of 12,205 full-time U.S. workers showed that highly engaged employees are much more likely to receive communication from senior managers at least once a month.

In the other survey, more than 2,000 U.S. and Canadian human resources practitioners said that nearly half of all senior manages would earn a grade of C or below for how well they communicate with employees. The survey was conducted by a professional-services firm,…

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Nov 14, 2008 3:59 PM

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