This won’t be a surprise to most of you given all the bad stuff that happened during the recession and ongoing economic downturn, but it still bears … Read more
How to Make Better Hires: Do You Go for Creative Thinking, or Job Skills?
OK, so I am stealing a story I read about 15 years ago in an airline magazine (If anyone out there recognizes it and can help me attribute this, please let … Read more
Just What is Diversity, Anyway?
By Michelle T. Johnson Not to get all Bill Clinton, but I feel the pain of anyone who thinks diversity is a synonym for political correctness. Diversity … Read more
How to be a Good Boss – It’s Just Not as Simple as it Sometimes Looks
Here’s a great question that I almost never hear anyone ask, much less answer: How can you be a good boss? This question popped into my mind today while … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Big Brothering Freelancers, the Terrors of Testosterone, Torching an Employer
Have you noticed a big change this week? Now that summer and Labor Day is behind us, people seem really serious about getting back to serious work. That’s … Read more
Can You Use a Mob Statute on a Worker Who Takes Confidential Info?
By Reyburn W. Lominack III So the former employee who walked out the door with your company’s “secret recipe” is not in the mob. Does that mean the … Read more
The Latest You Should Know About Managing Health Care Reform
Little by little we’re learning more about the complex piece of legislation called the PPACA (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). Over the … Read more
What I Learned From Rex Ryan, or Why Workplace Bragging is a Bad Idea
In my long career, I’ve noticed two things about people in the workplace who like to arrogantly brag, strut, and tout to anyone who will listen just how … Read more
Why Everything Communicates, Whether You Want it to or Not
An early lesson in my career was that everything communicates. That lesson rang loud and true recently as I listened to a good friend tell me she’d just … Read more
10 Ways You Can Really Motivate Employees – Without Using Money
Just because people work for you (and therefore are supposed to do what you tell them) doesn’t mean it’s not better to motivate them to actually want to do … Read more