Is a Collaboration between Marketing and Human Resources needed?

Is your growth being limited by people development? The past 6 months I have been involved in the domain of Human Resources working with companies in both the SaaS environment and Event Management fields. Before this most of my area in people development had centered on the onboarding aspect. These areas show strikingly a bit Read More …

Develop a Kaizen Spirit thru TWI

A few weeks ago, I introduced the Lean Talent Development Matrix and had promised to follow-up with the description in more detail of the boxes. Instead of singling out each box, I thought the natural progression was to group the boxes and show the overall relationships in four quadrants. This diagram represents the four boxes Read More …

Exploring Lean Talent Development

Last week I introduce the Lean Talent Development Process Matrix and during the week I received some great feedback via the LinkedIn threads. If you view my LinkedIn profile, you can join in on the discussions the threads are easy to find. In one of the discussions, Jim Merritt mentions that he looked at Lean as an Read More …

How Small Business Survives!

Dan Pink posted a blog the other day titled The 44-cent Solution. The blog solicited quite a few comments and I have to say really made me stop what I was going to write today. I had woke this morning and was contemplating the Demise of Small Business (and solving World Hunger). You either had Read More …

Affiliate Marketing an easy way to make money – Fact or Fiction

What prompted this post was a blog post on American Express Open Forum by Chris Brogan. Chris is one of my favorite bloggers and someone that I have always held in very high esteem. However, when I read his post it left me the impression that he made Affiliate Marketing seem like an easy way Read More …

Home Furnishing Store in Fort Wayne Celebrates Anniversary

Wild Hare Decor celebrates their 4-year anniversary, October 1st. We are extremely grateful for all the continued support we have received. Our biggest enjoyment during this time has been meeting so many new and wonderful people. This Thursday, October 1st, we will be extending our hours to 6:00 PM. For most of the day, you Read More …