Quote: Smart employers don’t care about what you’ve done – they care about what you’re doing NOW. They want to see you adding value or more importantly, creating value. Do you think a canned one-paragraph intro on top of your resume is going to tell your prospective employer everything they need to know about whether or not you may be a future superstar?

Quote: The terms “knowledge worker” and “manual worker” are no longer mutually exclusive. People loading product onto rail cars certainly work with their hands, but they may also contribute knowledge to the business. Dow Chemical (DOW) realizes this, and that’s why it shares day sales and inventory numbers with everybody in the company, including the workers doing the heavy lifting on the front lines. Dow recognizes that if people understand how their actions contribute or detract from business results, they will do a better job.

Quote: As CIO one of your most important jobs is to get as much out of your IT department as is humanly possible. You’d think that that best way to do this would be to always be pushing harder and harder. However, researchers who have been studying this very problem have come up with a different approach that they say can yield better results: go slower…