Professional Development Programs Need Your Support

摘要

It's year-end planning time again at many companies, and there is a good chance either you or the department heads at your company are hard at work on 2009 budgets and revenue plans. Inevitably, the challenges of balancing head-count and employee-benefit expenses against projected income leads to the need to make difficult choices. I doubt any of us has ever said, "We could run this company much better if we just had fewer employees." Especially when it comes to research and development, we can almost never have too many players on the team, and, in most cases, we are desperately trying to succeed with way too few people who are being asked to work much longer hours than they should. Does working 14 hours a day really produce more creative thinking and productivity than 8 or 10 hours? I have my opinions, but they may be best left to another editorial.