“Our people are our greatest assets.” We have heard that over and over the past two decades. Check out your company’s website and I bet there is a quote … Read more
Ruining High Potentials, or When Talent Management Goes Wrong
Once upon a time, there was a young man who was searching for a career. Like many young people, his early jobs took him on a circuitous route, and … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: The No. 1 Reason the Wrong People Get Hired
The No. 1 reason the wrong people get hired is because we hire them for the wrong reason. No matter how logical we may try to be, most hiring decisions … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: The Winning Combination For a Top-Notch Workforce
The following is my response to an item on Retail Wire concerning the fact that The GAP has announced they are going to raise the starting wage of … Read more
How to Get a Manager to Stop Micro-Managing
In the more than 10 years I’ve been blogging on communication issues, no one has ever asked about the important topic Rahul emailed about recently on … Read more
What Leaders Can Learn from Donald Sterling’s Big Mouth
This week, NBA commissioner Adam Silver made the decision to ban Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling from the NBA for life in response to racist … Read more
What Keeps Recruiting Leaders Up at Night?
Last week, at the Spring ERE Recruiting Conference, Ron Mester unveiled some of the findings of the State of Recruiting Survey conducted recently by ERE … Read more
5 Steps to Maximizing Your Team’s Work – and Productivity
“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” — Tom Peters, American business author As the leader of … Read more
Dying to Work, or Why Great Workplaces Are Healthy Workplaces
Work can be sickening. Literally. During an appearance at the recent Great Place to Work annual conference this month n New Orleans, Stanford business … Read more
In-House Recruiting Survey Unveiled This Morning at ERE Conference
With a self-assigned grade of B, and an even lower C+ from the hiring managers whose jobs they fill, recruiting leaders from companies large and small … Read more