What are organizations doing to help employees manage financial difficulties? SHRM (in collaboration with Elevate) explored this question in their recent … Read more
The Cultural Tipping Point: The 4 Reasons Change Initiatives Fail
My fascination with culture began more than 40 years ago when another young industrial engineer named Jim Delaney and I started a process improvement … Read more
Information Overload: Why Brevity Is Becoming a Business Basic
Brevity is emerging as an essential new business basic. In the fast-paced, multi-tasking, attention-deficit workplaces we find ourselves, getting to the … Read more
The Big Freeze Out, or Why You Can’t Ignore the Dissed-Engaged
What do you do with a productive outlier? Especially when she’s a smart problem-solver who is sometimes collaborative, and works well with others, but … Read more
Why You Need to Tie Performance to Leadership Development
Companies today face several unprecedented challenges. An increasingly competitive hiring landscape, combined with growing talent shortages and skills … Read more
Is Too Much Cross-Functional Work Killing Your Employees?
We have heard of the many jobs and/or industries that have been either lost or tremendously condensed since 2008. Let’s deal with the tremendously … Read more
The Path to Success: 8 Little Secrets to Getting Promoted
It’s never too early to carve out your path to success. Start to think, act, and communicate like a leader to get the promotion you ultimately want. Even … Read more
Innovation: 3 Ways to Help Your Company Become the Next Big Thing
Innovation — finding a better way of doing something or creating something new — that’s how Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and countless … Read more
What I Learned From My Life as an Expat HR Leader in Saudi Arabia
I recently received a note from my good friend Sharlyn Lauby (aka, the HRBartender) in reference to a question that she received from one of her readers: … Read more
Does Your Company Punish People For Career Development?
Virtually every company says it values career development. Yet one of the most common reasons for turnover is a lack of development opportunities. If … Read more