There’s a great scene in “Casablanca” where Sam, the piano player gets the opportunity to move to a rival nightclub and perform for a lot more money: Rick (Humphrey Bogart): Sam, Ferrari wants you to work for him at the Blue Parrot. Sam (Dooley Wilson): I like it fine here. Rick: He’ll double what I […]
This post brought to you by MetLife Small Business. The content and opinions expressed below are that of Susan Solovic. Let’s start with this white-paper snippet from MetLife: “Great employees are the lifeblood of any small business. However, as the job market accelerates, even happy workers may be tempted to explore whether the grass is greener […]
It’s a situation many of you have faced: a valued employee announces his intentions to leave in order to take another position. It’s one that I’ve experienced as well. When it happened to me I put a counter offer on the table and also made several other concessions. In the final analysis, it wasn’t just […]