Author Archive for Jordan Romoff
Foodstock draws 30,000 people to protest Mega-Quarry
Melancthon Mega-Quarry
Water concerns and environmental risk assessments impede plans for a mega-quarry near the GTA
By Ruth VanDyken
Ontario’s densely populated Greater Golden Horseshoe, which hugs the western tip of Lake Ontario from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to Niagara and stretches all the way to Georgian Bay and Peterborough, has less than four percent of the [...]
Chefs, Farmers Unite for Foodstock
Chef Michael Stadtlander is the driving force behind Foodstock, an Oct. 16 fundraiser in support of the movement to Stop The Mega Quarry. He’s in the potato field of Dave Vanderzaag, who is one of four farmers who didn’t sell to an American-backed company that wants to develop one of Canada’s biggest rock quarries. [...]
LinkedIn: “The Great Cocktail Party in the Sky” + “Top 8 Myths”
By Kathy Caprino, M.A.
The analogy of the cocktail party truly fits. LinkedIn has the following aspects in common with an awesome cocktail party:
You get the chance to connect with like-minded people who you may otherwise never have had the chance to meet
By investing just a bit of time each day, you can learn a great [...]
Receive A Job Counter-Offer? Don’t Take It
“Pitting your employer against another in bidding war for you is often career suicide”
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“The Ten Commandments of a Chef” by Daniel Boulud
1. Keep Your Knives sharp
Your most basic tool is your knife. To cut well, all of your knives must be sharp. Make sharpening a daily ritual at the very least. A knife is not like a car that breaks down. If it does not perform, you have not kept it sharp. [...]
Restaurants are projecting price increases as inflation rises and costs go up [Bloomberg.com]
Restaurants Lift Prices as Inflation Hawks See Fed Lagging the Curve
Dining out will cost more this year as U.S. restaurants take advantage of the nearly two-year long expansion to boost prices on food and drinks.
“The fact that the airline industry was able to pass along cost increases signals that the pricing environment has become somewhat [...]
Google’s 8-Point Plan to Help Managers Improve – NYTimes.com
For much of its 13-year history, particularly the early years, Google has taken a pretty simple approach to management: Leave people alone. Let the engineers do their stuff. If they become stuck, they’ll ask their bosses, whose deep technical expertise propelled them into management in the first place.
But Mr. Bock’s group found that technical expertise [...]
Talent Retention
How to keep employee poachers at bay
BRYAN BORZYKOWSKI
Special to Globe and Mail Update
No business wants its work force pilfered by the competition, especially when it comes to key performers. And that’s even more so for small and medium-sized businesses than bigger ones, which can ill afford to lose and try to [...]
The Counter Offer – Dangers and Food for Thought
In a highly competitive landscape where talent is the straw that stirs the drink, the truly talented are often faced with considering a counter offer from their current employer when they resign. A candidate I recently placed very aptly described the counter offer as being akin to the man who suggests counseling only after his [...]
Ten must-ask job interview questions
The Manager
Ten must-ask job interview questions
HARVEY SCHACHTER
From Monday’s Globe and Mail
Posted on Monday, January 3, 2011 9:29AM EST
THE KEY QUESTIONS
1. What was your most challenging job? Why? What did you learn from this job?
2. What was your least challenging job? Why? What did you learn from this job?
3. In what situation did you find that [...]
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