tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608Mon, 02 Sep 2024 01:51:06 +0000HRPeopleProfitproductivityPEObusinessoutsourcevalue of workcapitalismhuman capitalhuman capital managementHillary ClintonMcCainObamaassetbusiness HIVcj coolidgeincome inequalitymechanicalorganicoutsourcingprofitabilitysquaredime lettersadministaffalign hr with businessbenefitsbusiness modelsbusiness strategycustomer satisfactionemployeeemployeesengagementinvestmentperformancerecruitingteambuildingAlexander TylerAndroidsBoomerCampbell BrownCarnegieCarnegie MellonDeweyDorseyGen XGen YITInsperityIntegrated DiagnosticsJohn StosselJohns HopkinsKen McfarlandLead with LuvLynn Forester de RothschildPeter DruckerPinkRice Business Plan CompetitionServiceTalentWonderful Lifeal frankenalignmentbailoutbest places to workbiblebrian wesburybusiness decisionsbusiness weekcamdenchangecommunicationcongresscontented cowscostcost savingscustomer solution profitecomonicseconomicseducationefficiencyemploymentfastcompanyfinancefinancialfootballfriedmanglobal warminghardrive failureimpactindustrializationinsuranceintangiblejobjob searchkeith hammondslaborleveragelevergemanagementmanaging by financialsmanaging in the next societymangementmarketingmissionmortgage crisisoffshoringopportunity costperformance managementpfefferprofit impactprogrammingpurposerescueric camporush limbaughschoolsportsstrategystrengthssurveyteamtendixtime managementtime wastetrainingvisionweaknessesCJ Coolidge's Musings on People as the Real Profit Center for Business.http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)Blogger38125en-usnoCJ Coolidge's Musings on People as the Real Profit Center for Business.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-8148935336976463433Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:39:00 +00002013-07-18T16:43:21.171-05:00InsperityLead with LuvPeopleperformanceProfitprofitabilityWonderful LifeThis is a reprint of a post from 2011 that is more true today than when I first wrote it. Enjoy it's simplicity, and appropriateness. I repost it because of what I recently read in Ken Blanchard's 2010 offering, Lead With Luv.  My Dad used to say that Business is Business, and Personal is Personal. I think he was advising me not to mix my personal life with my professional life. It http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2013/07/get-personal-in-business-have-fewer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-5570200020507542741Tue, 05 May 2009 16:01:00 +00002009-05-05T11:37:05.119-05:00business HIVcj coolidgeefficiencyprofitabilityprogramming"We've never done it that way before."Following is my review of Gordon Morrison's latest book, Breaking the Time Barrier. This book may present the most important breakthrough to enhance the efficient development of software in the history of the industry.The seven last words of the organization: "We've never done it that way before." Embrace them and you'll stifle innovation, creativity and http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2009/05/beware-seven-last-words-of-organization.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-249800737918271677Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:27:00 +00002009-04-28T07:52:21.626-05:00administaffCarnegie Mellonhuman capitalIntegrated DiagnosticsJohns HopkinsRice Business Plan Competitionsquaredime letterstendixAdministaff sponsored the 3rd and 4th place overall award prizes at the prestigious Rice Business Plan Competition in 2009. I was privileged to present these awards to Tendix Development, LLC, from Johns Hopkins University, (Winner also of the Tech Transfer Award, sponsored by DFJ Mercury) and Integrated Diagnostics, from Carnegie Mellon University, (Winner also of the earth/Space Life Science http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2009/04/human-assets-bring-life-to-business.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-8698899430955375093Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:42:00 +00002009-04-02T13:46:49.007-05:00employeesengagementmechanicalorganicsquaredime lettersWe live in a world where corporate profits need a boost. Most companies need look no further than their employees for answers. With labor and benefits costs rising, companies need to accomplish increasing outcomes without necessarily increasing their workforce. In every company there are specific value creators which are offered to customers. As I have written before, these value creators http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/10/need-profit-boost-look-to-your-people.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-2498882727205008491Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:42:00 +00002008-10-14T21:30:16.971-05:00Campbell BrownHillary Clintonincome inequalityLynn Forester de RothschildMcCainObamaproductivityDemocrat and former Hillary supporter, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, rejected Barack Obama, the class warfare elitist, to offer sincere support for John McCain. Her intelligent and well explained decision turned heads.One of those heads belonged to none less than CNN's Campbell Brown. Brown determined to take Rothschild to task. In an exercize of utter futility, Brown used her "unbiased" newshttp://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/10/thinking-democrat-rejects-party.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-3853497323849801852Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-10-12T08:00:00.624-05:00employmenthuman capital managementprofitabilityrecruitingvalue of work(This is the 6th and final installment in a series of articles about the problems associated with government's attempts to ignore free market principles in a free market world ecomony.)The solution for all the economic and social woes we face will naturally occur with the improved understanding of value.The World of Employment Will be Enhanced by Understanding Value.Let me describe an entirely http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/10/future-of-employment-maximizing-value.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-8231730726482851580Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:48:00 +00002008-10-10T11:48:00.983-05:00CarnegieDeweyeducationindustrializationMcCainPeopleschoolvalue of work(This is the 5th installment in a series of articles about the problems associated with government's attempts to ignore free market principles in a free market world ecomony.)There should be little mystery about why the concept of value is so far off base. From our earliest training, we were taught to misunderstand it.It Started in School. Purpose: Produce Workers for the Industrial MachineWe http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/10/misunderstanding-value-equasion-wrong.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-929292159193443033Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:20:00 +00002008-10-07T08:20:00.255-05:00Alexander TylerbailoutcongresseconomicsJohn Stosselmortgage crisisrescueI feel used, lied to, abused. . . and though I've been reading about it, and listening to as many of the talkers as I can stomach, I still don't know exactly what Congress did in passing the so-called $800+B "Rescue Plan" or "Bailout." This leaves me very uncomfortable.Our US economy doesn't function in a vacuum. It actually reflects the condition of the society it serves. Ours may be weakening, http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/10/800-billion-economic-solution-does.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-5618036643461216130Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:32:00 +00002008-10-06T19:33:32.122-05:00capitalismincome inequalityvalue of work(This is the 4th installment in a series of articles about the problems associated with government's attempts to ignore free market principles in a free market world ecomony.)Misunderstanding the Concept of Value.What is the real force behind the problem we associate with the inequality of riches? It is, simply, the lack of universal understanding of value. We don't understand what it is, and we http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/10/income-inequality-corrected-through.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-6297429030305432120Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:54:00 +00002008-10-06T19:38:59.735-05:00capitalismincome inequalityinvestmentproductivityvalue of work(This is the 3nd installment in a series of articles about the problems associated with government's attempts to ignore free market principles in a free market world ecomony.)There is Nothing Wrong with Capitalism.The American Heritage dictionary defines capitalism as an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/10/capitalisms-potential-for-income.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-4547523992357390358Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:15:00 +00002008-10-03T19:45:43.963-05:00capitalismecomonicsinvestmentproductivity(This is the 2nd installment in a series of articles about the problems associated with government's attempts to ignore free market principles in a free market world ecomony.)No matter what we may think, the world economy is a free market, even capital based, economy.Basic Economics 101For any government/state system to exist, and maintain, it must have an associated economy which can make http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/10/capital-key-to-economic-survival-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-2974550411626184190Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:52:00 +00002008-10-06T19:40:06.753-05:00capitalismHillary ClintonHRObamavalue of work(This is the first installment in a series of articles about the problems associated with government's attempts to ignore free market principles in a free market world ecomony.)There is no free lunch.It seems an obvious foundational principle to all things business - at least all things business in our capitalist system. Somehow, somewhere along the line, we seem to have forgotten.We have startedhttp://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/09/value-of-work-is-inextricably-linked-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-2006197935316052443Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:37:00 +00002008-09-07T10:48:44.043-05:00business HIVbusiness strategycj coolidgehuman capital managementoutsourcingPEOsquaredime lettersThe less you pay, the better the deal. Right? The less time you spend, the more money you save. Right? These precepts are the foundation of a creeping business virus I call the Hidden Inefficiency Virus or Business HIV.At its most fundamental DNA, Business HIV is the average individual’s response to too much and contradictory information. Needing to make decisions that guard profit and no http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/09/beware-of-business-hiv-its-on-rise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-6282635659516781650Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:05:00 +00002008-08-20T08:17:22.782-05:00business decisionscj coolidgehuman capital managementKen McfarlandoutsourceI grew up with a certain amount of arrogance that's tied to a perception I have about my own intelligence. I suffer from a malady described by Dr. McFarland in 1961. I am often wrong, but never unconvinced. You may benefit from a realization that the same situation pertains to you, or to others you work with every day.Choosing to recognizing it can help you make better decisions and do better http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/08/often-wrong-never-unconvinced.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-5832150364728908873Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:36:00 +00002008-08-20T08:38:52.627-05:00al frankenbusiness HIVglobal warminghuman capital managementoutsourcerush limbaughIn 1267, Roger Bacon published his Opus Maius, an 845 page work, said to contain all the knowledge in the world. Imagine that. All the knowledge in the world in a single person, and in a single volume. You'd have to be a teenager to make such a claim today.In 1961, before the dawn of Moore's Law, and before the proliferation of the silicone chip, Dr. Kenneth McFarland wrote that there was alreadyhttp://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/07/do-you-know-too-much-to-increase-your.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-5641360667667986624Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:42:00 +00002008-08-20T09:34:10.307-05:00hardrive failureITopportunity costoutsourcetime wasteIf it isn't part of your central value, it ought to be outsourced.I couldn't be any more convinced. Not doing so causes me more time and focus waste than I can afford. I can't afford doing thigs that I am not gifted, resourced, talented, or interested in doing.Today my hard drive failed.I turned my HP laptop on this morning. The little power lights illuminated. Then, they shut off. Then they http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-should-have-already-outsourced.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-7568446121025528627Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:27:00 +00002008-06-13T14:38:26.003-05:00brian wesburyHillary ClintonHRhuman capitalMcCainObamaPEOPeopleProfitRigidity has never produced a structure capable of good function in an environment of changing conditions. Skyscrapers are designed with the ability to "sway" in the wind, or to "flex" in case of an earthquake. The wings of the great airliners are designed to "give and take" in the face of changing air density and current so that the body of the plane can maintain maximum stability in turbulence.http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/06/rigidity-bad-for-engineering-bad-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-6570999223714457884Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:44:00 +00002008-08-20T09:37:42.250-05:00assetbusiness modelsHRhuman capitalmanaging by financialsmanaging in the next societymechanicalorganicPeoplePeter DruckerPeter Drucker's comments about business structure and management emphases tickle me. They tickle me because the very statements he makes run absolutely counter to the widely held beliefs of today's "experts." The difference is staggering.In his 2002 book, Managing in the Next Society, Drucker makes comment about the problem "financial people" have managing business."There's an enormous challenge http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/06/high-value-capital-of-business-its-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-1250068559728833527Thu, 29 May 2008 15:21:00 +00002008-05-30T07:56:35.522-05:00camdencontented cowsHRPEOric campoI just left a very interesting forum, sponsored by executive recruiting firm, Austin Allen at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston.Ric Campo, a founding partner of Camden Living, gave a powerful and informative presentation. His comments were filled with the very precepts Camden followed to become a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For award winner in 2008, and, one of the finest multi-familyhttp://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/05/ric-campo-talks-about-people.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-5447850004841301933Thu, 15 May 2008 16:15:00 +00002008-06-02T15:40:42.730-05:00align hr with businessbusinesschangecustomer satisfactionemployeemanagementPEOEverything is changing. Not a new phenomenon, but an accelerating one.The rate of change is so great, that more than 50% of US business execs are finally confessing that they are struggling with its pace. And, let's face it, even the rate of change is increasing. I call it Hyper-Dynamics.It effects everything in our lives, and our companies, much of which management tries to ignore.Consider some http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/05/you-cant-stop-world-and-you-cant-just.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-436998725237068244Thu, 15 May 2008 12:29:00 +00002008-08-20T09:38:57.999-05:00administafffastcompanyHRkeith hammondsPeopleproductivityProfitKeith Hammonds posted an article on Fast Company titled, "Why I Hate HR." It describes conditions which are typical of the attitudes and experience of companies when considering the involvement of their HR processes as profitability drivers. It is an old article, but well worth re-reading as the problems he communicates aren't really any better handled since he wrote it nearly 3 years ago.One of http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-still-true-today-hr-people-are-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-3390640000415583061Mon, 12 May 2008 16:42:00 +00002008-05-12T17:20:03.356-05:00jobjob searchPEOPeoplerecruitingI’ve been counseling college students to forget what they think they know about “getting a job” to pursue a “strengths based” effort to become involved with an employer where they can maximize their entry value in whatever enterprise that may be fortunate enough to hire them.It’s a simple and effective process.Let's say you want a job.Begin with a change in perspective. You are really not simply http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/05/strengths-based-approach-makes-job.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-8328116019703951277Mon, 12 May 2008 14:13:00 +00002008-05-12T17:18:17.590-05:00friedmanoffshoringoutsourcingPEOPeopleProfitI responded to a wonderful article by David Williamson Shaffer on Epistemic Games. The article was titled, The End of the American Century, and is a good description of America's misunderstanding of the changes that have, and are, taking place in the world economy.My comments, reprinted here, clarify the difference in perspective between "mechanical" and "organic" business models, and how this http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/05/off-shoring-and-outsourcing-problems.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-854476957714797636Fri, 09 May 2008 15:11:00 +00002008-05-12T17:32:20.686-05:00bibleHRproductivitystrengthstime managementweaknessesThe Bible has some valuable business content, particularly content about maximizing individual and team performance. One particularly useful insight comes the New Testament, from the Book called II Corinthians, Chapter 12 verse 10. Permit me a little leeway in how I interpret Paul's words and apply them to business.Paul says, in essence, "I am well content with weakness, for when I am weak, I am http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/05/become-well-content-with-weakness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594519487026905608.post-5299951629046613229Thu, 08 May 2008 21:39:00 +00002008-08-20T09:03:37.274-05:00alignmentemployeeengagementHRmissionperformance managementpurposevisionPerformance expectations are clear and mutually understood in the sporting world, but blurred for employees in most businesses.In the sporting world, each and every player knows his position, his roles, and responsibilities. And, maybe more importantly, each knows how his contributions impact the outcomes of the team.Every wide receiver knows that he is a wide receiver. The very position is http://cj-coolidge-people-profit-x-factor.blogspot.com/2008/05/performance-expectations-clear-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CJ Coolidge)0