MishTalk

AUGUST 4, 2017

Initial Reaction. Today’s establishment survey shows jobs rose by a stronger than expected 209,000. Revisions were not a factor, subtracting 7,000 in May and adding 9,000 in June. In the household survey, employment rose by 345,000. However, voluntary part-time employment rose by a whopping 469,000 while part-time for economic reasons dropped by 44,000.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Rolling Stones have grossed more than a billion dollars in ticket sales and endorsements. Does that mean that they're better than Beethoven, John Adams and Zoe Keating, put together? Were the Bay City Rollers better than Patti Smith? There are CEOs who make more in a year than 1,000 of their workers. Does that mean that they're 1,000 times more important or productive or worthwhile?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. If you’re one of these employees, how should you handle your comeback? What’s the best way to get back into the fold?

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2017

We were relaxing on a Sunday night after a busy weekend and watching the end of Sunday Night Baseball. It was an exciting game, the visitors had a one run lead in the bottom of the ninth, runner on first, two outs, and the pitcher kept throwing over to first to keep the runner close, as he had previously attempted to steal on a pitch fouled off. Of course, the home town fans booed with every toss to first and the boos got louder with every throw.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 4, 2017

In 1996 Alan Greenspan, Fed Chair, warned of “irrational exuberance” in the stock market. Some say he was just early. But the real story is much different. By the year 2000, Greenspan was the market’s and the economy’s biggest cheerleader. Right before the dotcom bubble collapsed, he fully embraced the productivity miracle. Today Greenspan is back with another “irrational exuberance” call.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 4, 2017

We have two revisions coming for second-quarter GDP estimates even as time rolls on. The third-quarter is already a month over. GDPNow has its first estimate, a whopping 3.7%. The GDPNow estimate is 1.7 percentage points higher than Nowcast. (more…).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

Photo by Vicko Mozara. Evidence is piling up that vacations are good for business. Not only does taking vacation contribute to enhanced productivity but it also immunizes our teams against the toxic negative attitudes that can be contagious in the workplace. So if vacation has such a good ROI, why are people taking less and less of it? In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation.

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