Wall Street Is Monster Bullish
There’s Monster news today with the international job board lauded in a Barron’s report for its aggressive cost-cutting and wise investments. The report, followed by an upgrade by UBS, helped boost shares of the publicly traded company to a year high of $18.57. The closing price is a bit more than triple the $5.95 low for the year Monster hit on March 10. The bullish article, “Turning Into A Monster Of A Competitor,” talks about Monster’s international reach, noting it accounts for 45 percent of the company’s revenue. The article approvingly cites the acquisition of China.HR and Trovix as well as the makeover of its website, with its new emphasis on tools for the passive job seeker
Being a Digital/Analog Leader
When 9/11 happened, the Internet was flooded, and I couldn't even access it from MIT. In my office there was a high-tech plasma TV with its cable service down, but it could pick up a weakened airwave signal. We sat and watched the horrible events transpire in completely fuzzy images. There at the temple of the digital universe, I found it ironic that the only way we could reconnect with the world again was through an analog lens
Monster Settles Stock Options Lawsuit
Monster has settled a class action lawsuit brought in connection with the company’s stock options backdating scandal. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, Monster Worldwide says it will pay $4.25 million in full settlement of the action. “A substantial majority” of the money will come, the company says, from insurance “and contributions from another defendant.” The filing, Taylor v. McKelvey, et
Companies Expect To Hire Fewer 2010 Grads
There’s a report out that should be a wake-up for the procrastinators in the class of 2010. The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE ) says employers are cutting back next year’s college hiring plans by 7 percent. That may not seem like much until you consider that employers reduced this year’s college grad hiring by 21 percent. That seven percent is on top of this year’s cuts, meaning that there will be almost 30 26.53 percent fewer jobs being offered to the current crop of seniors than their counterparts had in 2008
Putting the Art of Leadership into Practice
For the past ten months or so, I have had the privilege of traveling around North America speaking about what it takes to lead in hard times. Sometimes I joke that if I knew "hard times" would be so popular a topic I would have thought of it sooner; I guess I just needed the economy to cooperate. Lame joke aside, I can think of few times when the subject of leadership has been more pertinent or its practice more necessary
Why Not Include Everything?
I received this question from a reader the other day: Several times in your online course and your ebook, you mention not to include things that do not pertain directly to what you’ve chosen as your Value Proposition, but you never say why it would be a bad thing to include extra information. Why? Why should you not include a little extra? Most people would probably think that it might set them apart from the crowd
Turning Frogs into Purple Squirrels
Many years ago, in the land of Spamalittle, King Rter lived in a tiny castle near a pond. It was a noisy pond filled with the sound of croaking frogs, day and night
