Janice Kaplan’s new book The Gratitude Diaries examines the effects of gratitude in the workplace. She cites a London School of Economics paper that … Read more
Are Your Employee Relations Going Down the Toliet?
The HR lesson for this week is about a man who worked for a company for 15 plus years and may have let a little toilet paper get between him and his job. I … Read more
A Question From Both Apple and Amazon: Does a Workplace Have To Be Perfect?
By Howard Mavity I recently blogged about the debate on CEO and employee pay ratios. I urged employers to seize the high ground and decide what their … Read more
Better Engagement? It Trickles Down From Managers to Your Employees
I do not care whether anyone here likes me or not. Please do not come to me with this, I should be the last person that you come to with questions, go … Read more
Digging Into Executive Pay: Is It Really Out of Control?
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule this month that will require publicly traded companies to disclose the ratio of CEO pay to the … Read more
7 Ways Leaders Can Keep Their Promises (and the Trust) of Employees
Leaders make a lot of promises. They promise high-quality products and experiences to customers, careers that offer opportunity and purpose to employees, … Read more
The Three Hallmarks of a Dysfunctional Workplace
In Anna Karenina, Russian author Leo Tolstoy famously wrote “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same could … Read more
One Survey’s Focus: Lots of Growth, But Little on the Workforce and Driving It
Wait – what? I’m looking at a new survey analysis/report from KPMG titled Setting the course for growth: CEO Perspectives. Unlike every other CEO … Read more
A Dozen Reasons The Netflix Maternity Leave Benefit May Be A Bad Idea
Adding extraordinary benefits appears on the surface to be a generous move. I certainly support the practice, but corporate leaders need to realize that … Read more
Waiting Tables, and Other Smart Things That Wise Leaders Do
When the hedge fund Starboard Value took over the board of Darden Restaurants, the parent company of Olive Garden, Starboard’s CEO and Chairman Jeff Smith … Read more