Rethinking how people and businesses interact
From the category archives:
I love all of the discussion centered who should report to which department. Whether it is a HR department arguing they should be reporting to the CEO and they should have a seat at the table to recruiters arguing that they should be in any department except HR, it gives me a broad smile. Someone [...]
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One of the all time college basketball coaching greats John Wooden died at the age of 99 this weekend. Since there is nothing really untimely or tragic about a man who had lived a full and successful life to the old age of 99, I thought it might be appropriate to talk about one of [...]
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For talent pros looking to move up in the world, I desperately believe that leadership and business skill development should come before certifications or HR specific knowledge. That’s not a popular position (especially among people that have a stake in HR specific certifications or educational products) but that’s what I’ve seen time and time again. [...]
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I’m not going to call out my friends over at Fistful of Talent and The HR Capitalist for being un-American but I am going to let that suggestion ring a little bit in the heads of my readers. These pro-Duke missives that they dropped on us telling us how we should want to be like [...]
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I’ve been involved with office pranks before (I know, surprising) and that includes the hardest day of the year to prank anyone (a.k.a. April 1st). Given that I worked in HR and also pulled pranks on people, I worked on some rules of guidance for April Fools jokes at the office. The golden rule: Don’t [...]
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First of all, this is not going to be a regular feature. I don’t have enough evil in my body to write about it 50+ times a year. I do have a little evil in me like the rest of you so here’s story for your Friday. When I managed in the retail world, I [...]
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Do you want to be perfect? Go for it. In fact if your goal in life is being perfect, it should be fairly easy. Here’s the process: Don’t do anything Repeat If you never want to get married, have kids, start a business, change careers, or take even the simplest of risks in life, perfection [...]
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Because I’m not so sure you want to. As someone who has taken conflict resolution coaching classes and been party to hundreds of employee conflicts in the workplace, most of the advice that you receive in order to resolve conflict is garbage. Do you use a five step method? Do you use an eight step [...]
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So corporations and unions now have unlimited spending on political advertisements? Some people are saying that this is the end of democracy as we know it. I am sorry but Humpty Dumpty has already fell off this wall. To think that a mangled piece of legislation known as McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform (or any of [...]
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