Scheduling ‘Bottom of the Ladder’ Workers

Monday, 04. 26. 2010  –  Category: All Blog Posts

Thank you to WFI board member David Creelman for the following guest blog post regarding Jody Heymann’s Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder (Harvard Business Press).
The book marshals the evidence for investing in ‘bottom of the ladder’ talent. (The fact she landed with that awkward ‘bottom of the ladder’ phrase to describe this [...]

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Mintzberg on Management

Thursday, 12. 17. 2009  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Management Tips

Our board member David Creelman has written a commentary on Henry Mintzberg’s new book, Managing.  You can find David’s discussion of this book here.  Dr. Mintzberg is a professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal and a frequent contributor to publications like the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, [...]

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A Guest Post from our Board Member David Creelman –
 I remember that I used to make a point of learning the names of new interns, but after a few years it seemed that they came and went so quickly that it was hardly worth the effort.  I imagine that managers of high turnover hourly [...]

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