A Powerful Message from CEOs: Their Top Challenges Are People Related

November 20th, 2013

Each year, the Conference Board does a study on the top challenges faced by CEOs. The 2013 version of this report (see The Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2013) tells a very succinct and compelling story: People are everything. Said another way, people are either the top CEO challenge, or the key to addressing the other […]

Clients Say the Most Amazing Things: Enlisting Your Team to “Always Be Curious” About the Changing Business Landscape

November 13th, 2013

From time to time, TPO posts first-hand C-level business perspectives, excerpted from an ongoing series of conversations we have with our clients. This one is from the President of an Association focused on medical technology.

“Staying ahead of the curve and keeping an eye on our market landscape is very challenging. We have 35 […]

Memo to Employees: Mind Your Social Media P’s and Q’s…for Your Company and Your Careers

October 30th, 2013

A version of this article was originally prepared by TPO for one of its clients, an industry educational foundation. 

In 2012 we spent 74 billion minutes on social media sites. That sounds like a lot and it was, comprising 20 percent of our time, much of it during work hours. With the pace of social media […]

Building Employers’ Connections with the Gen Y Workforce: Who Are They and What Does it Take?

October 23rd, 2013

A version of this article was originally prepared by TPO for one of its clients, an industry educational foundation.

Generation Y, also known as the Millennial Generation or simply Millenials, numbers around 80 million people in the U.S. born between 1979 and 1999. They are the escalating class that will make up 36% of the workforce […]