Last April I posted about what I think is a misguided obsession, sometimes, with proof. Well, I'm starting to get bothered again, and this time it is in the context over the debate about the effectiveness of the "open of ...
There is an article in the December 2013 issue of the Atlantic titled, "They're Watching You at Work." It's not so much about privacy or spying, as it is about big data, and how that can be applied, not to sales and mark ...
Conventional wisdom says it is. Heck, I kind of agree. This is why we pay people the big bucks, right? They have to make the tough strategic calls that make or break an organization. While that certainly makes sense, the ...
I've recently come across another battery of articles full of fist-shaking at performance reviews. Microsoft just dumped its "forced ranking" policy, although apparently Yahoo just added it, and Adobe has gotten rid of p ...
I know that we want it to be useful, but it isn't. I understand the desire, though. We are constantly told that it costs tons of money to hire a new staff person. That makes turnover a very bad thing, so the metric it ...
We all want cohesive teams, and to get them, I hear a lot about shared vision. The leader is responsible for providing a clear vision for the team, and once everyone is on board with this singular vision, the team perfor ...
I just finished reading the new white paper that Elizabeth Engel and Peggy Hoffman have put out about "mission-driven volunteers," and it's fabulous. The paper makes a compelling case why the current model for volunteeri ...
Have you ever asked yourself that question? Or have you simply taken it all for granted? Why do we have them in our organizations? What's their purpose? What value do they bring to the organization? Those aren't purel ...
Thanks to everyone who read last week's Open Letter to HR post. And particularly thanks to those who said "I'm with you, so what's next?" In this post, we're going to get started. And I really should apologize for the ...
My second White Paper in the "Making it Work" series is out! Click here to go to the download form and get it for free. This one is about one of my favorite topics: conflict. I started my career twenty years ago in th ...
