From the category archives:

Poor Management

Let’s Stop Blaming Lawyers For Business Decisions

by Lance Haun on March 22, 2010

You’ve heard it before either in the board room, an industry conference or webinar: someone heard from their legal team that they shouldn’t be engaging in some sort of new business activity. The latest version of this has been social media but it has come through the years with various regulatory and technological changes. We [...]

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Evil Friday: Wishing For Someone’s Failure

by Lance Haun on March 5, 2010

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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The Errant Pursuit Of Quantification

by Lance Haun on January 7, 2010

Quantification has been on my mind. The question comes up in sales conversations, compensation discussions, product development processes and marketing messages. Heck, it even comes up when you’re putting together a resume or when you’re explaining to your parents why you’re fine making a little less money for a better job. I find this search [...]

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Worst ways to get fired

by Lance Haun on September 10, 2006

Here are some of the worst ways to be fired. There are some interesting points to be made here but here is the meat of the criticism: Strategy 1: It can be extremely taxing to ruin people’s day face to face, so create a little breathing room. Besides e-mail, companies have been known to fire [...]

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