Comments for Stacey B. Randall Blogging

Comment on Looking Deeper at Social Entrepreneurship: Here to Stay or a Fad? by Roger Hamilton

Roger Hamilton — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:28:56 +0000

The reality of good. At the end of one’s life,
is not measured by how much money you made, but
by how much you have made the world a better place.
Successful entrepreneurs often the real impact of the
non-profit and social enterprise switch.You know very
well about social entrepreneurship,
Who reads your website well.

Comment on Recruiting Trends: An Interview (Guest Blog Post from GURconnect.com) by Pointer Men's Basketball

Pointer Men's Basketball — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:15:36 +0000

Maybe you could make changes to the post subject title Recruiting Trends: An Interview (Guest Blog Post from GURconnect.com) Stacey B. Randall Blogging to more better for your subject you write. I loved the blog post even sononetheless.

Comment on No Lights at Wrigley Field by Jeff Serenius

Jeff Serenius — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:31:53 +0000

Nice post … I recently came from our “2011 strategy” session with our leadership team. It was refreshing to hear about their 2011 plans and the focus on personal development and improving their skills sets. A few years ago, that was as crazy an ideas as lights at Wrigley. Good for them and Kudo’s to my company leadership for putting some resources behind it.

Comment on It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere by Kevin Fallon

Kevin Fallon — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:57:24 +0000

After over 16 years on the corporate side of college recruiting with firms like Accenture and Bank of America a switched to the campus career services office”side of the transaction” and became quite interested in this topic. In addition to what you have posted another prevalent attitude that impacts these workers is the lack of loyalty “on both sides” – the attitude is this: “if the company can let me go at any moment for any reason (plunging stock price) then why should I be loyal and dedicated?” I also found other disturbing/troubling trends and attitudes such as “if the company can lie to me whenever it wants then I have no problem lying to the company” (we found shenanigans with GPAs on resumes, transcripts, following recruiting protocols, etc) and a lot of outrage over CEO / Exec Compensation.

Workers from other generations – Boomer / X / Y – have to realize that the millennials most likely have parents that worked long hours and were eventually shoved out anyway while the CEO took home millions upon millions each year and they are pretty bitter about that.

Comment on He Can’t Read Cursive and Being Different by Jarvis Holliday

Jarvis Holliday — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:49:27 +0000

Cursive probably is a dying font and I didn’t realize that kids weren’t being taught it in schools anymore. But I guess if it isn’t being used much in the real world then why teach it. When I was in elementary school and middle school in the 1980s and early 90s, we used to have to write in cursive for our book reports and essays or other important assignments. But by the time I got to high school and computers had become such an integrated part of the lesson plan, we now had to type those important assignments, which is how I imagine it is currently.

The only time I write in cursive nowadays is to sign my name. Will we still use cursive signatures in the future if kids today aren’t being taught cursive?

Comment on Paying for Good Grades.. Future Work Implications & How Bad is it Really? by Stacey

Stacey — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:54:01 +0000

I think that incentivizing for a desired outcome only results in a conditioned response and potentially only for a short period of time.
I agree that you have to enjoy the work you’re doing or motivation is going to be tough to find. I also think that rewarding kids for good grades sends an expectation they should receive a reward each time they produce a result. When in reality, like you said, good grades are expected. Great work in your career is expected. With the mentality that you should receive an incentive for doing the minimum expectation, hard work will no longer exist.
There’s no doubt that rewarding for grades works as a motivator, just as comissions motivate a sales person. But I think to the degree it is relied upon in its use as a motivator is what we should really pay attention to.

Comment on All Things Generational – Moments to Share by Jason Weingarten

Jason Weingarten — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:04:50 +0000

I was going to say the same thing with Ferris Bueller. We had guests in town (Chicago) and they brought ther children who are tweens. They said they wanted to go to the Art Institute to see the picture with all the dots. I said, yes it’s there and you won’t believe how big it is. It is the Ferris Bueller painting. They were clueless, so I said, you know Carrie from Sex in the City? Yes… She’s married to a guy who was in a little movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Oh… Then they went back to texting on their phones.

Comment on Paying for Good Grades.. Future Work Implications & How Bad is it Really? by Denise Reid

Denise Reid — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:47:19 +0000

I was paid for getting good grades. It was a definite movitating factor for me but did not work so well for my brothers. They did receive money but not as much as me.

My brothers were bored by the classroom and possibly the teaching style of our teachers which I believe opens a whole other can of worms.

I did see this video yesterday and though it was good food for thought on this subject – “Science of Motivation”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&feature=player_embedded

Comment on Paying for Good Grades.. Future Work Implications & How Bad is it Really? by Lee

Lee — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:47:22 +0000

I’d also say it is a form of conditioned response, where we are linking a positive reward with a positive behavior. I’m sure psychologists out there can provide greater insight. As a parent of 4 and 5 year olds, I’m learning how powerful this little trick can be.

Comment on Recruiting Trends: An Interview (Guest Blog Post from GURconnect.com) by SandraLima

SandraLima — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:15:39 +0000

You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.