by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 13, 2008
The most recent study from the research firm Towers Perrin showed that only 21% of employees felt engaged in their work and that fully 38% feel partially or fully disengaged. The Extra Mile, a new book by David MacLeod and Chris Brady reviewed in the Financial Times...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 8, 2007
In the August 5, 2007 New York Times Book review of Robert H. Frank’s new book FALLING BEHIND: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class, Daniel Gross the reviewer notes: Knowing that Steve Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group made almost $400 million last year, or...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 1, 2007
Higher wages benefit business by increasing consumer purchasing power, reducing costly employee turnover, raising productivity, improving product quality, customer satisfaction and company reputation. Today’s minimum wage workers have less buying power than...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 1, 2007
I once heard George Soros explain or rather rationalize his investment in a company that produces land mines while his charitable organization worked to remove them from locations they had been planted and end their use. He explained that someone was going to reap the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 1, 2006
There was no shortage of complaining about the $147 million that Lee R. Raymond, retiring CEO of Exxon Mobil departed the company with. Exxon shareholders didn’t seem to mind. Why would they when large company CEO’s make on average 300 times what the average worker...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 4, 2006
We, (me included) chase with great and even desperate passion – more and more and more – stuff. A bigger pay check, a nicer house, a cooler car, new clothes……. Now – we sort of know better, we know that we can’t have both a sane and sustainable world with all that...
