If you recruit in Italy, don’t check the social networks when you background a candidate. In Spain, you can monitor the time your workers spend on … Read more
Employee Feedback: Why I Love My HSA (and Why You Should Too)
I recently talked to a co-worker who wasn’t very happy about our health insurance plan. I was surprised because I love it. It turns out that she just … Read more
Court Decision Makes it Easier to Enforce Non-Competes in Texas
By Michael R. Greco Continuing to chip away at one of its prior decisions, the Texas Supreme Court just made it a bit easier to enforce restrictive … Read more
Working 40 Hours Per Week: A Normal Schedule, or Career Suicide?
The question in the headline of The Wall Street Journal story jumped out at me because, well, I’ve heard it so many times before: Is 40 Hours a Part … Read more
Creative Solutions? They Usually Require You to Think “Inside the Box”
There’s a great little story in Matthew May’s book In Pursuit of Elegance (Why the Best ideas Have Something Missing) about trying to solve the problem … Read more
The Netflix Backlash: Will Angry Customers Impact Company Culture?
I’ll admit it: I’m a Netflix fan. I haven’t been a big movie guy since my days of wearing tuxedo shirts while working at a Hollywood … Read more
Recognizing Top Talent: Do We Know It When We See It?
Our brethren over at ERE have a intriguing blog post today by Mark Bregman about the difficultly recognizing top talent titled, Violinist in the Subway … Read more
What Do You Do When Your Job Candidate Stands You Up?
Yep, it happened again – I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am – I can’t stop myself! As long as I’m in HR/recruiting I will never understand how a candidate … Read more
In Search of the Perfect Performance Review: 5 Steps to Improve the Process
Have you met a fan of the (name your adjective: cliched, outdated, crappy) yearly performance review? Me neither. In corporate lore, the performance review … Read more
Motivation and Delivering on Time, or Why Consequences Really DO Matter
This is third in my series, What Good General Managers DO I opened the series with a note that a good general manager makes sure s/he has the following … Read more