{"id":364,"date":"2006-10-13T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T15:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=364"},"modified":"2006-10-13T10:24:35","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T15:24:35","slug":"activist-shareholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/activist-shareholders\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist Shareholders&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>are two words you don&#8217;t want to hear if you are CEO of a publicly-traded company. <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inc\/headlines\/~3\/35917698\/executives.html\" target=\"_blank\">From Inc.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At public companies, this [turnover] is reflected in the rise of activist shareholders, Jacovitz said, seen most recently in the public ousting of top executives at Hewlett-Packard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think there may be <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=286\" target=\"_blank\">one other slightly significant item<\/a> that had an impact on the HP ouster.<\/p>\n<p>The article focuses on C-level turnover, which is on the rise. But I found these graphs towards the end of the article to be more notable:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meanwhile at the lower rungs of the workforce, small employers are having trouble finding qualified workers, according to the National Federation of Independent Business, a Washington-based lobby group with over 600,000 members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of more than 150,000 small businesses polled in September, more than 55 percent said they hired or tried to hire at least one new worker, the group reported on Monday. Of those, a full 80 percent said they found few or no qualified applicants<\/strong>, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The availability of qualified applicants is on the rise again as the number one problem facing small-business owners,&#8221; William Dunkelberg, the group&#8217;s chief economist, said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ok, the economist&#8217;s quote is poorly constructed, but I believe he is saying that the supply of qualified applicants is moving up as the number one issue for small businesses. I note this in regards to <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=344\" target=\"_blank\">my post from last week<\/a> where attracting skilled staff was only number 10 on the list. That ranking certainly seemed low based on the small business owners with whom we work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>are two words you don&#8217;t want to hear if you are CEO of a publicly-traded company. From Inc.com: At public companies, this [turnover] is reflected in the rise of activist shareholders, Jacovitz said, seen most recently in the public ousting of top executives at Hewlett-Packard. I think there may be one other slightly significant item that had an impact on the HP ouster. The article focuses on C-level turnover, which is on the rise. But I found these graphs towards the end of the article to be more notable: Meanwhile at the lower rungs of the workforce, small employers are having trouble finding qualified workers, according to the National Federation&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/activist-shareholders\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,16,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-hiring-salespeople","category-sourcing","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-5S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":144,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/turnover-trouble\/","url_meta":{"origin":364,"position":0},"title":"Turnover Trouble","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"June 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"There was a good article in SalesForceXP's recent newsletter (sorry no link) that quotes 2 recent surveys conducted by Miller Heiman and the Hay Group specifically looking at turnover amongst salespeople. The research concluded that not only is finding good salespeople tough (knew that), but keeping them is equally as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":789,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/wall-street-turnover\/","url_meta":{"origin":364,"position":1},"title":"Wall Street Turnover","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"If you think you are experiencing hiring difficulties, be happy you are not on Wall Street: Fresh off some of the richest bonuses ever handed out, investment bankers and traders, especially those who deal with leveraged debt, are in high demand. In some cases, bidding has driven newly hired employees\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":927,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/turnover-trouble-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":364,"position":2},"title":"Turnover Trouble","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Turnover is trouble for any company when it is not controlled.\u00a0 To use a timely analogy, it is similar to a forest fire.\u00a0 A\u00a0controlled burn clears out a section\u00a0allowing it to be repopulated with\u00a0fresh, new trees.\u00a0 An out-of-control fire can destroy an entire forest in a short amount of time.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/windowslivewriterbdb755e78f05-c5b2tree-develop7.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":147,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/turnover-trouble-you-didnt-know-you-had\/","url_meta":{"origin":364,"position":3},"title":"Turnover Trouble You Didn&#8217;t Know You Had","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Let me piggyback on the previous post and boldly state this - your salespeople (and other positions) are looking at other career opportunities. From the weddle.com website: Recently we tallied job seeker responses to this question: \"How many times per month do you visit an online employment site?\" The results\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":412,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/the-cure-for-ceo-turnover\/","url_meta":{"origin":364,"position":4},"title":"The Cure for CEO Turnover","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 1, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Honestly, I just came across this article - Women CEOs Experience Longer Tenures, Faster Growth - as a follow up to my previous post. This study is from a limited sample of Massachusetts-based companies with an average size of $54M\/year revenue and 120 employees. Not huge, but sizeable companies nonetheless.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trends","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/trends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1655,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/turnover-is-a-reflection-of-your-on-ramping\/","url_meta":{"origin":364,"position":5},"title":"Turnover Reflects Your Onramping Program","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"July 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"When you look at your employee turnover are you\u00a0content or confounded?\u00a0 If confounded, what have you done to improve it?\u00a0 You may want to start by reviewing your onramping program.\u00a0 Managesmarter.com had an interesting article on this subject and provided the following findings: 22 percent of staff turnover occurs in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Onramping&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Onramping","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/onramping\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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