This past week a member of my husband’s team suffered a devastating loss: his one-year-old daughter died, which sent my husband — his manager — looking … Read more
Cities Outsourcing To Save Money Spells Trouble
We both love, and love to hate, outsourcing. While nobody loves talking to someone on the other side of the world about a technical issue on their laptop, … Read more
New Workplace Survey, Same Old Question: Is it Half Empty or Half Full?
One thing you’ll find if you read a lot of studies or research on workforce trends is this: the positives or negatives you take away from the study depends … Read more
Why it’s Good to Learn from a Bad Boss
Anyone who has spent much time managing knows this to be a management truism you can’t avoid: you learn more from a bad boss than you do from a good one. I … Read more
Four Barriers to Building Talent
By Marc Effron and Miriam Ort Through our corporate and consulting experience, we have identified four talent-building barriers that organizations create … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Firing by Blackberry, Illegal Layoffs, and Dave Ulrich Speaks
I like to use Friday to catch up on things I might have missed during the past week, and if you’re like me, you do, too. That’s why I try to highlight some … Read more
Whatever Happened To The Four-Day Work Week?
If you’re reading this today (on a Friday), you’re probably not on a four-day work week (or you’re just an overachiever who likes to … Read more
Kill the Performance Review and Your Talent Management Strategy Won’t Survive Either
Earlier this week I read John Hollon’s post here at TLNT, “A Persuasive Argument for Getting Rid of Employee Performance Reviews,” with keen … Read more
Ask the HR Pro: Is This Policy Illegal, or Just Plain Stupid?
Welcome to a new feature here at TLNT — “Ask the HR Pro.” Each week, we’ll take a workplace or HR-related question sent to us by a … Read more
When Is a Strategy Not a Strategy?
By Jocelyn R. Davis, Edwin H. Boswell, and Henry M. Frechette, Jr. Even as the business environment has become increasingly complex, many strategies have … Read more