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Categories: Keeping It RealPrior to selling his business, David Friedman’s company was awarded seven Best Places to Work awards. Company culture, he says, is too important to be left up to chance or to be side-swiped by a strong personality who may not be the one you want in an influential role. David works with companies to create […]
Categories: LibsynOn this week’s Keeping It Real – my research for a client reveals a trend that is worrying to say the least.
Categories: UncategorizedWe all know about the danger that the sheer size of the retiring Baby Boomer generation poses to many social programs set up to ease their golden years. Forecasting the date of the ultimate demise of Social Security and Medicare is almost a cottage industry. But there may be good news on the horizon. And […]
Categories: Blog, iGenWhat can small businesses learn from large corporations about attracting and training employees? Surely, the hiring process at a major international company like Airbus has nothing in common with that of, say, a Mom-and-Pop pizzeria. But is there anything they can learn from each other? Our guests in the latest episode of “What’s Working With […]
Categories: What's Working with Cam Marston, WorkplaceOn this episode of Keeping It Real, I tell the story of a dinner that went too late and its wonderful outcome, and why scheduling these things never works out the way you hope they will.
Categories: Keeping It RealLuckett Robinson’s grandfather owned a timber mill on the Mobile River. His father began importing exotic timber fifty years ago. The business is deep in his blood and today he and three of his siblings run the company. They’ve completed some recent acquisitions that will propel growth westward from Texas and opened some retail stores […]
Categories: LibsynAirbus has been a fixture in the city of Mobile for fourteen years. During that time the partnership with the city, the community, and the workforce has grown and evolved into something all parties are proud of. Airbus’ recent announcement of their new workforce development plan called FlightPath9 takes talented high school kids and gets […]
Categories: LibsynWhen your industry is disrupted by technological advances, how do you survive? You adapt, or else. Our guest in the latest episode of “What’s Working With Cam Marston” is a valuable case study in this theorem. While digital communications tools threaten to make many printed publications obsolete, Gwin’s Printing continues to thrive after being in […]
Categories: What's Working with Cam MarstonDid you know that vinyl albums are still being produced today? It’s not just reissues, but new releases by current artists. And people are buying them. The introduction of the compact disc three decades ago ended the mass production of vinyl albums as a primary medium for musical recordings. And after record stores traded their […]
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