Rethinking how people and businesses interact
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I’ve been traveling quite a bit and people always ask me if I can relate to the movie Up In The Air. I don’t know if you’ve seen it but it basically follows the travels of this guy who helps companies across the country layoff people. He flies thousands and thousands of miles a year. [...]
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Monday is always a great time to ask this question: Do you have fun at work? No, no, I’ll let you grab your coffee first before you answer. You want to know what the best part about this question is? HR people answer it in entirely different ways than any other employee. HR people go [...]
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As a quick aside, I have been super busy, stressed, yadda yadda and ignoring the one thing that brings me sweet relief: blogging. It is good to see you all again. I hate dress codes. Especially because I hate dressing up or looking nice and that sort of thing. In fact, if I were in [...]
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I had an employee at an old job of mine who thought I was out to get him. I’ve had many “come to Jesus” talks over the course of my career but the one I gave him was simply brutal…brutally honest. Performance wise, he was the worst employee consistently. He might never be at the [...]
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I reviewed Radical Careering here several weeks ago and while I thought the book was average, one point that stuck with me and has continued to do so is the building of portable equity. Portable equity is defined as skills, experience and education that you can take with you from job to job. These days, [...]
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What do all of these have in common? You shouldn’t talk about them at work. Regardless of your company’s policy on discussing political or religious matters at work, you shouldn’t do it. Similarly, if you like your job, you should never talk about sexual matters at all. And while the sexual element of this post [...]
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Chances are, at one point of your working life or another, you’re going to get canned. I feel bad to be breaking the news to you but in the world of higher turnover and rapidly changing demand, the American employee is more expendable than ever (as long as “ever” means before 1940). Expendability aside, we [...]
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