Rethinking how people and businesses interact
From the monthly archives:
But it isn’t anywhere near career success. This is one article I am actually going to share with my boss. A good point from the article: “Mess isn’t necessarily the absence of order,” Abrhamson and Freedman claim. “A messy desk can be a highly effective prioritizing and accessing system. In general, on a messy desk, [...]
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Am I smelling a generational smackdown between Recruiting Animal and Employee Evolution? Maybe Animal could get the Evolutionistas on the radio show and really go to town. I could probably put aside some time to listen to that. And honestly, I feel a bit torn about who I should root for. On one hand, I [...]
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…in a few years. And I really hate to make blanket statements like that because all of the MBA guys and gals I know are swell and they work great together. That doesn’t mean though that I haven’t talked to a lot of dweebs coming fresh out of MBA’s not knowing anything about working at [...]
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…if not better, says a CNN/Money article I read today. I have always found mentoring to be a worthwhile venture for both me as a mentor and me being mentored. I don’t know exactly what the cause of this worthwhile feeling is but for me at least, it stems from a couple different things. Face [...]
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Becker has a good write up on Recruiting Bloggers about the discontinuation of the Workfarce blog which I had just started reading regularly (with a bit of pleasure of course). I cherish my anonymity to a certain extent. Yes, if you want to find out who I am (i.e. my real name, my position, my [...]
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Jacob from JobMob left an interesting comment on my post about the productivity of Fridays in the business world. Enter the idea of the four day work week. Interesting. It isn’t a new concept by any means. School districts have tried it with some success. People with places that have flextime do it all the [...]
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I used to love Fridays. It was a payoff for working hard Monday-Thursday. You work that entire week to try and line up your perfect Friday. Maybe you plan on taking off a little early to catch some golf or get out of town. Or perhaps you just want to just get a few end [...]
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Don Imus is, at best, a person that doesn’t think about everything that comes out of his mouth. Which if you’re a shock jock, is probably not that unusual. We can bat around whether he is a racist or not but at this point, at least from where I am taking this post, it doesn’t [...]
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Not tomorrow. Not next week. Not next month. Today. The number of times that I’ve asked someone for a major professional accomplishment and they’ve stumbled and given me a really poor answer is way too high for what it should be. I’ve been trying to think about people who couldn’t possibly list a major professional [...]
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You’ve heard the begging and pleading. You’ve heard the “Well then you’re fired!” outbursts that lead to potential liability dangers. But I am always surprised to hear that companies…big companies with big HR teams…still don’t know how to effectively counter-offer. First and foremost, the success rates of counter-offers are relatively low to begin with (though [...]
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