Scouting for Leaders

Tuesday, 10. 30. 2007  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Work Life Balance

Tonight I was at a Boy Scout recognition event where I was recruiting the parents of the younger boys to step up to the responsibilities of running the troop.  My son, a senior in high school, has been in scouting for 10 years.  His scoutmaster, one of our friends and contemporaries, will be stepping down this year as [...]

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The Red Sox & the Meaning of (Work)Life

Wednesday, 10. 24. 2007  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Meaning of Work

 
(October 30, 2004 Red Sox World Series Victory Parade)
In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit I am not a sports afficionado in general or a baseball fan in particular.  This is despite the fact that my great grandfather, Tom Smith, was a professional baseball player.  It’s hard to be indifferent, though, when the [...]

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Perspective and Randy Pausch

Tuesday, 10. 23. 2007  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Meaning of Work

I read about Randy Pausch in Jason Corsello’s Human Capitalist blog yesterday. Randy is a professor at Carnegie Mellon who learned recently that his pancreatic cancer can’t be treated, and that he’s only got a few more months to live. His last lecture at Carnegie Mellon was recorded and has been viewed by [...]

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One of the issues that our “Working in America” survey highlights is the importance of health benefits to employees as they evaluate whether to stay in their current positions. Tonight, I was out to dinner with my family after having visited my mother in the hospital. My parents are retired, but fortunate to [...]

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From a national perspective, figuring out the status of the current job market has not been a walk in the park.  Large data revisions, conflicting statistics, and considerable regional variation have made it quite a challenge to figure out the dynamics of today’s labor market.
The biggest challenge stems from a large data revision by the [...]

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