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Some Tips for Finding Innovators

Bloggers Note: Some of my sources use the terms innovation, innovator,

creativity and “outside-the-box” thinkers interchangeably. I will do the same in this blog.

“Innovation can be defined as coming up with ideas that bring value to your customers and…

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Added by Nick Tubach on October 8, 2010 at 11:25am — 1 Comment

Creating a Candidate Referral Engine

I recently finished reading John Jantsch’s best seller The Referral Engine –

Teaching Your Business to Market Itself. As you may know from reading my blog postings, I am an…

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Added by Nick Tubach on September 29, 2010 at 1:56pm — 1 Comment

What the Future May Hold

According to a piece in the current issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, in order to get a global read on HR Management practices a survey was recently conducted by Boston Consulting Group and the World Federation of People Management Associations. A total of 5,561 HR professionals in 109 countries were consulted on topics such as skills gaps in 10 – 20 years; measures taken during the recent recession and whether they would continue; and a… Continue

Added by Nick Tubach on September 20, 2010 at 4:08pm — No Comments

What Einstein Can Teach Us about Recruiting

I know that sometimes it feels like we are all moving at the speed of light while dealing with massive amounts of info and expending a great deal of energy. We have requisitions needing attention, candidates wanting updates and upper management looking for better talent and quicker results while spending less. But Einstein’s famous formula E=mc2 is not what I am referring to.…

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Added by Nick Tubach on September 13, 2010 at 1:15pm — 3 Comments

Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

Originally posted on Q4B Marketing Blog

Whenever I am introduced to someone outside of work I try to find out as much as I can about them, what they do, where they work, do they like what they are doing. I

do this because…

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Added by Nick Tubach on September 2, 2010 at 11:29am — No Comments

D M J R M Part II

Last week I posed the question “Does My Job Really Matter?” and received a number of well thought out responses including one suggesting that if I held up the letters D M J R M to a mirror that I would have the password to my CRM system. Still didn’t work.

But one respondent felt that making your job matter was…

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Added by Nick Tubach on August 24, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

D M J R M

You probably thought that I just gave you my password to my CRM system. If only it

were that easy to remember. No, the letters above stand for something much more

valuable than a password. They stand for perhaps the most important question a

good business leader should always be able to answer. They also stand for the

one question every employee should be asking of their employer and should

demand an answer from… Continue

Added by Nick Tubach on August 16, 2010 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

Taking a Vacation

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for

your work. ~Morris Fishbein

Originally posted on Q4B Marketing Blog

I associate

the month of… Continue

Added by Nick Tubach on August 5, 2010 at 6:31pm — 1 Comment

How to Get Rich Quick!

First of all, if you are looking for a good stock tip, or the name of the long-shot in the 6^th race at Sam Houston Race Track, or the combination of

numbers in the Mega Powerball Global Lottery (3-13-23-33-43, 34 Powerball

number) this is not the place.…

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Added by Nick Tubach on July 28, 2010 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Why You Hate Your Job

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”

-William Shakespeare

In a recent article for…

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Added by Nick Tubach on July 19, 2010 at 6:30pm — 2 Comments

The Way Things Are

From the film Babe:

The scene: Christmas day on the farm. The pig, the cow, hens, and Ferdinand the duck crowd by the kitchen window, craning their necks to see which unfortunate one of their kind has been chosen to become the

main course at dinner. On the plate is Roseanna the duck…

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Added by Nick Tubach on July 14, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Celebrating Your Career Independence

Like most of you, I spent this past weekend relaxing, catching up on some long-neglected chores and between periods of light showers and heavy rain, enjoying some traditional July 4^th fare, hotdogs, apple pie and lemonade.

I did give some thought about the reason for our celebration. I think many of us,…

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Added by Nick Tubach on July 7, 2010 at 10:32am — 10 Comments

Is Your Employment Brand Creating Enough Buzz?

Unless you’re living in a cave or have been buried under a pile of unsolicited résumés, you, like the rest of the world, have caught World Cup Fever. This is especially true for those in our country since Team USA has finally made it to the round of 16. Even for those diehard non-soccer fans, it is hard not get caught up in the excitement of this world spectacle. But you certainly wish that those… Continue

Added by Nick Tubach on June 28, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

What Keeps You Up at Night?

Added by Nick Tubach on May 4, 2010 at 11:58am — No Comments

Is There Really a War for Talent?

I have always had a problem with the war metaphor when talking about Talent Acquisition. War always conjures up images of destruction, dying and wounded, bombings, explosions, protests, POWs and Saving Private Ryan. War also brings with it an expectation of resolution, an end to the conflict, a peace signing.

Under talent acquisition –as – war, there are the…

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Added by Nick Tubach on April 15, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments