Into the slump!
Well done David ! What a great start to a sweeping project. I think an engagement approach to the lucky ones left in office to help them better manage the loss of colleagues in the down turn could be a good direction for this year. Here is South Africa, we find that EE budgets are being cut even faster than marketing budgets. We need to find a way to convince leadership that EE is the key to picking up the economy asap.
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Comment by David Zinger on January 29, 2009 at 7:35am -
Sandi,
It makes logical sense to be engaged while there is a slump. I think also we need to help people fully engage so that is their work with the company changes (layoff) they are able to take their engagement with them to work, finding work, creating work, etc.
David
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