Last Friday was Employee Appreciation Day – officially. I have to be honest. Though I’m in the employee appreciation business, I get a bit annoyed by this … Read more
What Great Leaders Know: It’s About Getting the Right People on the Bus
I have been to the mountaintop. This past week, I was in Austin, Texas for TLNT Transform, which was billed as a new type HR conference. While not a … Read more
The Challenge in Merging Cultures After a Merger or Acquisition
Yesterday, I offered a review of the book Building a Magnetic Culture. Nowhere is that more difficult – or more necessary – than in an organization that … Read more
Postal Service Layoffs Show Why You Can’t be Ill-Prepared For the Future
For many organizations, talent acquisition is still reactionary. Organizations binge on talent when times are good and purge on talent when times are bad. … Read more
Are Your Employees Really In Synch With the Organization’s Goals?
Regular readers know that The New York Times’ “Corner Office” column is a perennial favorite of mine. Every Sunday, Adam Bryant interviews a CEO … Read more
Billy Beane and the Science of Talent Management, The Moneyball Way
What’s it like to have Brad Pitt play you in a movie? Billy Beane, general manager of Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics, is one of the … Read more
10 Things You Can Do To Build a Team of Rock Stars
If you’ve been to a Hard Rock Cafe before, you know how unique the restaurant experience is there. But besides the memorabilia, music and videos … Read more
What Wells Fargo Gets Right: Focusing on Employees and Customers First
Banks and bankers have been much in the news the last few years, usually taking the heat for poor or questionable business practices that have inarguably … Read more
Are We Teaching Employees the Lessons We Want Them to Learn?
My youngest, an 8th grader, was recently caught cheating. On advice from her parents, Natalie approached the teacher before school to admit she wasn’t … Read more
What Do YOU Do When You Let Bad Hire Worse?
If I could take all of my HR education, My SPHR and 20 years of experience and boil it down to this one piece of advice, it would be this: Bad Hires Worse. … Read more