Eavesdropping on Business-Speak, by John Stodder
Posted in Employees, Environment on Jun 3rd, 2008
In the 1990s, I was part of a task force designed to increase telecommuting in the City of Los Angeles. At that time, oil was cheap, but traffic was horrible and air quality still (then as now) the worst in the nation.
We were mindful of the 1984 Olympics traffic experience, when just an 8 percent […]
Posted in Accounting, Dolan Media, Employees, Energy, Taxes, Tourism, Transportation on Mar 3rd, 2008
Let’s take a look at what our company’s publications are writing about this week:
A Louisiana State Rep. wants the anniversaries of both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita (the forgotten sequel) to become paid holidays for state workers, according to our Deon Roberts. Strikes me as highly ironic, given the poor performance of the state government […]
Posted in Employees on Feb 28th, 2008
On a Harvard Business School blog, John Baldoni posts “Three Rules Every Manager Forgets.” (These rules are the kinds of principles that annoy bosses like this.)
Employees want to perform. Douglas MacGregor, the Harvard psychologist, taught generations of managers that how employees are treated makes a difference. Treat them like dogs and they will bark on […]
Posted in Accounting, Crime, Employees, Law on Jan 18th, 2008
A week has passed since we posted this item about Axium International, a payroll firm that suddenly closed its doors and went bankrupt. Since then, the firm’s primary financier has sued two principles, John Visconti and Ronald Garber, and has made a number of stunning allegations. Many details are at the […]
Posted in Accounting, Employees, Media on Jan 8th, 2008
*Updates added at bottom.
Could be the writers’ strike, could be the IRS, could be something else, but Axium International, a firm that handles payroll and other financial matters for major-studio and independent film productions, abruptly shut its doors today and told its employees to go home.
The Hollywood Reporter quotes sources as saying company president […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Employees, Energy, Environment, Technology on Nov 6th, 2007
Here are a few interesting stories our reporters have picked up the past day or two….
Portland’s one of those towns with some tasty microbrews. In fact, its unofficial nickname is “beertopia.” Today we learn from the DJC’s Libby Tucker that three local breweries are investing–a lot–in energy conservation schemes, including recovery of the intense […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Employees, Housing, Law, Trade on Oct 29th, 2007
If it helps the state of Louisiana to give a tax break for shopping, for movie tickets, and for theatrical productions, our blogger in New Orleans, Deon Roberts wants to know why not give a tax break to the real drivers of the Crescent City’s post-Katrina recovery — the people who decided to come back […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Employees, Energy, Environment on Oct 22nd, 2007
Some gritty Dolan Media highlights for a Monday morning…
Despite recent passage of a new state law, anti-immigrant activists and business interests that benefit from immigrant labor are both turning to the ballot box to get their preferred fix, according to the Arizona Capitol Times’ Jim Small.
Neither measure has qualified yet, but a war of words […]
The New York Yankees’ graceless firing of Joe Torre today struck me as a cluster of classic PR mistakes organizations so often make — substituting talking points for common sense, “thinking outside the box” without first looking in the box for a more time-tested approach, and believing one’s own spin.
The Yankees fired him passive-aggressively. […]
From my perch in the stratosphere…
I look down on this Monday morning and see American workers, busily sending Linked-In and Facebook invitations to each other. These networks are sprawling now, as if fueled by Red Bull and Miracle-Gro, their tendrils reaching and burrowing into the minds of once-productive employees now shaking hands and exchanging […]
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