In predictions, there is this statement when it comes to financials: give them a number or give them a date, but never give a number and date together. I’m not going to guess a stock market number, but since this is a career management site, I think it is important to give you my predictions… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Europe
Career Management Monday, September 29, 2008
This morning I was going to predict that after the Washington Mutual implosion that Wachovia would be next since they are in negotiations to be purchased by Citigroup. Since I’m on the Pacific Time Zone, I woke up this morning to see that Wachovia’s bank operations (not their brokerage and wealth divisions) were already purchased… Continue Reading
Reference Points for Your Job
This year my wife and I had the privilege of taking a two-week trip to Ireland. You will note that Europe uses the Euro for money, Celsius for temperature, and the metric system for measuring everything (except, interestingly, Ireland has a European Union exception where they can still measure pints, as in pints of Guinness…)…. Continue Reading
All work and no play
A “congratulations on your new job” card read in Europe while we were there last week: Congratulations on your new job! You’ll be working a lot of hours, will you? Well, you know what all work and no play makes you, don’t you? An American. Scot… Continue Reading
The Global Enterprise: Personal Branding Rules
IBM has changed the rules for people working in cubes. This week, I’ve looked at the “global enterprise” approach that IBM is successfully executing and the impact that this approach to operations will have on all of us that work in cubes. The global enterprise approach radically changes how all of us in cubes will… Continue Reading
The Global Enterprise: Knowing where the jobs are
Look at your job function and skills right now. Then ask yourself this question: what cities on the planet are my job skills going to provide the maximum earnings, greatest career potential, and greatest opportunities to stay working? Can you name five cities? With at least three of them outside your current country location? When… Continue Reading
The Global Enterprise: Cost reductions
If you were a CEO of a multi-national corporation — with mini-companies in twenty different countries all with their own management, administration, finance, warehouse and support operations — how much money could you save if you reduced your financial centers from twenty to, say, two? Quite a bit, wouldn’t you say? There is tremendous fixed… Continue Reading
IBM claims largest technology services company — in India
IBM has done something that I personally never thought they would be able to get away with by their competitors — become the largest technology services company in India with a current 10% market share. It just goes to show that you can never count IBM out and once the management puts their mind to… Continue Reading
Creativity and Innovation – 10 Characteristics
Yesterday, we kicked off the series on Creativity and Innovation – the latest “next big thing” for companies. Next, I covered some of the reasons companies believe innovation and creativity are so necessary for survival. In this post, I’ll take a look at how you can tell if your company has that innovation and creativity… Continue Reading
Career Management Monday, October 06, 2008
As I am writing this, the DOW is down over 500 points from Friday. Asian markets were down and so was Europe. Europe was down because the Union could not come up with an overall agreement on how to bail out banks like what happened here in the US. Like we know what we’re doing!… Continue Reading