January 2011 Jobs Report and Wages
Here are the job market and compensation numbers for January 2011 (based on the job report): Net gain of 36,000 jobs in the month (revised in March to a gain of 68,000) Analysts expected an overall gain of 149,000 Private sector payrolls increased by 50,000 Private service producing industries added 32,000 Goods producing industries gained [...]
The Train with No Known Destination
Last week news broke of Eric Schmidt leaving the CEO post at Google. He’s replaced by Larry Page. Speculation is that Schmidt no longer felt he was in control of the company. The triumvirate of Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt had become a duopoly of Brin and Page, the founders. The genesis of [...]
Tracking Employment News
14 million people are without jobs. Imagine everyone in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Dallas without a job. That’s almost 14 million. I mention this because the tone of the news regarding
employment has improved since the beginning of fall 2010. It’s almost like we’ve been on this long road trip and we can finally see the skyscrapers in the distance. There’s miles to go, but hope is
in sight.
I mentioned a few posts ago about the value of the A employee. I said they are changing the dynamics of the job market and I praised them.
The IBM Data Governance Unified Process: Driving Business Value with IBM Software and Best Practices – A Book Review
Quick Take: The world of Data Management is becoming exposed and books like this one are a great starter guide for practitioners to understand what goes into initiating a Data Governance
program. There’s no secret sauce or magic and that’s mostly the point.
Detail Review: There was once a time when people didn’t have enough information. Now there is too much of it. And in a few years we’ll supposedly have smart appliances and talking toasters.
Well, maybe not talking, but data is becoming more ubiquitous.
Over the last decade you’ve probably been on vacation and asked “is there a good pizza place around here?” and a friend responded “according to Google, there are 8 pizza places within 5 miles of
here.” You picked up the phone and called one but the number was no longer in service. Being persistent, you tried another, ordered a large pepperoni and got it 30 minutes later.
Picking the Best Team
“You wouldn’t believe it.” he says, although I’m sure I not only would believe it, but I can top it. “I was in first place in my league until Aaron Rodgers has a concussion and has to sit out. My back up was whoever the guy is from the Lions.” I pretended to listen, but [...]
As Time Goes By, Is the Economy Getting Better or Worse?
It’s time to look back two years ago and see what happened. The trough of the unemployment situation started October 2008 and abated some by April 2009. The losses in those months were historic: -554,000, -728,000, -673,000, -779,000, -726,000, -753,000, and -528,000. A normal really bad month is -250,000. These numbers were 3 times that. [...]
Value Creator – CEOs
Chief Executive Magazine and chiefexecutive.net are running the third annual list of CEOs that are value creators and value destroyers . The standard measurement of a CEO doing well is the stock price, but there are influences on a stock price that may or may not happen. For instance Apple’s stock price barely budged when [...]
November 2010 Jobs Report and Wages
Here are the job market and compensation numbers for November 2010 (based on the job report): Net gain of 39,000 jobs in the month Private sector payrolls increased by 50,000 Down from 160,000 last month Worst performance in 10 months Analysts expected an overall gain of 150,000 September was revised to a loss of 24,000 [...]
Scared of Ideas or Open to Change?
He hears the alarm clock, hits snooze, and lays there for ten minutes somewhere between sleep and awake. “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by Edvard Grieg plays: He does what I think is one of the hardest things in the world to do, he puts the first foot on the floor in the [...]
My Experience, Our Story
Every Sunday millions of Americans sit in a hard wooden pew to attend church. Regardless of the denomination the session culminates in a pastor of some kind delivering his sermon. It’s a learning situation emphasizing morals and what is expected of someone within the church community. The message is delivered usually in one of two [...]