by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Oct 20, 2011
THE NEW YORKER ANNALS OF INNOVATION HOW DAVID BEATS GOLIATH When underdogs break the rules. by Malcolm GladwellMAY 11, 2009 A non-stop full-court press gives weak basketball teams a chance against far stronger teams. Why have so few adopted it? When Vivek Ranadivé...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Oct 17, 2011
The illusion of truth found in statistics is that numbers not only point at truth, they actually touch it. When I was a boy growing up in the cornfields of Southern Illinois, my two mentor grandfathers would take me rabbit hunting. They would put me in...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Oct 12, 2011
The following article is a reprint: HBR Blog Network (Harvard Business Review) JEFF DYER AND HAL GREGERSEN Jeff Dyer is the Horace Beesley Professor of Strategy at the Marriott School, Brigham Young University; Hal Gregersen is a professor of leadership at...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Oct 10, 2011
As Chair of the Orange County Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Section, I oversee monthly topic presentations for our members. This month [10/10/11] the topic was using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media postings as evidence....
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Oct 7, 2011
Quote from NPR news today:– If the Labor Department were to measure unemployment more broadly — counting discouraged workers who have stopped looking and part-timers who want full-time work — the jobless rate would be 16.5 percent. That rate has been rising...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Oct 7, 2011
Of the cases heard at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown L.A., about 1/3 are employment related cases according to L.A. Superior Court Judge William F. Highberger. Judge Highberger helped create a pilot settlement program for these cases, and 135 of...