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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
Friday, 10. 19. 2007 – Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Workforce Software
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 [...]
Jared Bernstein Guest Blog: So, is the job market healthy or sick?
Sunday, 10. 14. 2007 – Category: All Blog Posts, Labor Market
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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