What if …? These two little words can change your world. They can even change the whole world. By asking yourself, “What if…,” you unlock the key to your … Read more
The Most Important Organizational Dynamic? It’s the Art of Managing Up
“No, I just know how to kiss ass.” My immediate reaction was simple: What? The answer was in response to a question I asked someone about how … Read more
The Flex Work Dilemma: How Do You Optimize Motivation and Productivity?
Now that the dust has settled a bit about Marissa Meyer’s controversial “no working from home” policy at Yahoo, I thought I’d weigh … Read more
Slow Decisions Can Murder Your Company’s Momentum
“A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.” — Rita Mae Brown, American novelist. The ability to consistently make good, solid decisions lies … Read more
How to Keep Your Culture Together When It’s Falling Apart
Even the most ideal workplaces can undergo upheaval and changes over time: key people leave, products fail, and restructuring or mergers can feel unstable. … Read more
Setting Company Culture? You Better Understand Employee Motivation
People in the business community love their clichés. “There’s no ‘I’ in team,” “work smarter, not harder,” and my personal favorite, “think outside the … Read more
I’ll Say It Again: We Need to Get Rid of Resumes and Job Descriptions
As some of you may know, I think the continued use of traditional, skills-infested job descriptions prevents companies from hiring the best talent … Read more
What’s the Mark of a Manager? Here’s a Great (But Unexpected) Example
Life is full of errands – things we must do, even if we don’t consider them fun or enlightening. I’m talking about simple things such as shopping for … Read more
Make Your Company Vision a KISS (As in “Keep it Simple, Sweetie”)
By Dr. David Vik I always advise clients that the “Vision” of a company needs to be a short, simple, and repeatable slogan that doesn’t put … Read more
Candidate Experience: Can You Keep Them Out of the “Black Hole?”
A couple of months ago I shared some data from an Aberdeen Group report about benchmarking quality of hire best practices. It’s a great benchmark list of … Read more