The Work Environment Index (WEI), rates working environments in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., in terms of average pay, employment opportunities, employee benefits, percentage of low-income workers, fair treatment between genders and ability for employees to unionize. It is the first index to evaluate worker climate as opposed to business climate on a state-by-state basis, and was developed by researchers at …
Along The Path To A Sale a.k.a. Sway
Lewis Lazare: Chicago-based veteran creative Gordon Robertson is giving Chicago something it needs more of -- a new boutique ad agency. Robertson is teaming with Brainforest, a design firm specializing in Web, identity and strategic development, to launch the city's newest boutique shop, called Sway Creative Group, which will function as the advertising division at Brainforest. Clients at Brainforest include …
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Digital Aboriginals Make The World A Better Place
Johnnie Moore writes today about More Space, the book he co-authored with eight other bloggers. Rob's chapter is a great polemic and rousing stuff. I think some of us bloggers have learnt to tone down our rhetoric so as not to alarm the uninitiated - and it's fun to be reminded of the idealism that actually motivates some of us to keep this up. Rob is Robert Patterson, the Principal of Renewal Consulting Group. He …
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Caption It #11
At Least It’s Top Shelf
El Universal: A prominent art critic is trying to stop Frida Kahlo's niece from selling tequila under the famous Mexican artist's name. Putting the name of Frida Kahlo on a bottle of tequila is no less than "disgraceful," said Raquel Tibol, adding the "atrocious act" was inspired by the fact that Kahlo was an alcoholic who drank at least a bottle of tequila daily. The new brand of tequila is backed by the Frida …
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween from Coors Light (and the energy drink that inspired them). …
Time Warner Lightens Its Case Load
Wired: Steve Case, a co-founder of AOL and one of the key architects of the disastrous AOL-Time Warner deal, said Monday that he has resigned from Time Warner's board of directors. Case had relinquished the role of chairman two years ago, but remained on the media conglomerate's board of directors, despite the opposition of shareholders angered by the fallout of AOL's purchase of Time Warner at the height of the …
The More Things Change…
"Human nature hasn't changed for a million years. It won't even vary for the next million years. Only the superficial things have changed. It's fashionable to talk about changing man. A communicator must be concerned with unchanging man - what compulsions drive him, what instincts dominate his every action, even though his language too often camouflages what really motivates him. For if you know these things about a …
