The most powerful competitive advantage any organization can have is employees WHO CARE. People who care about doing their jobs well. Who care about the … Read more
The Future of HR: It’s All About Making It a True Decision Science
“It is important for communities to educate our children for their future, not our past.” In a recent interview, Romain Dallemand, the … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Why Performance Improvement Plans Are a Big Cop-Out
I’ve written here before about performance improvement plans (PIPs) and how I generally think they’re a fraud, used largely to provide cover to … Read more
Why Good Management Just Makes Good Sense
Recently I read a newspaper article titled, “Managing? What Nonsense!” In this article, the writer joins the chorus in lamenting the … Read more
Night Owl or Early Bird, It Helps to Know When You Are Most Productive
The early bird catches the worm. I hate that phrase. I find it irritating because of the origin behind it, the idea that in order to succeed you must wake … Read more
August Employment Numbers Point to “Troubling” Slowdown in Hiring
The U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday that the country added 96,000 non-farm jobs in August, a disappointing number in light of predictions the … Read more
A Sad Workplace Truth: People Don’t Just Become More Strategic
As I am preparing for a session next week with an executive team on Leading Transformation, I got thinking about what blocks organizations from getting … Read more
Total Recall, 2012 Edition: Do You Recognize This Workplace?
Editor’s note: We asked a number of writers to take a look at the movies from the summer of 2012 with an HR or talent management theme. Bob Duffy was … Read more
4 Simple and Easy Ways to Improve Your Hiring Process
You know, the hiring process would be a lot easier if candidates weren’t so skilled in deceptive interview tactics – things like telling questioners … Read more
CareerBuilder Identifies 10 Rapidly Growing, High-Demand Jobs
We hear a lot about the sluggishness of the economy, and a lot of that talk revolves around the lack of jobs and the stubbornly high (over 8 percent … Read more