The New York Times recently had a good article titles “The Top 10 Rookie Mistakes for Entrepreneurs” which looks at the top reasons people usually fail when starting a new business. As you can imagine many of the reasons where typical: expense control, fiscal responsibility, having a strong value proposition, etc. But out of all [...]
For the background of this list – see my original post from 2-10-12. The #12 Rap Lyric That Shaped My Leadership Style comes from the Nicki Minaj’s 2011 song Fly, featuring Rhianna. Most white folks know Nicki Minaj, not from Rap, but from how her song Super Bass was sung by that little English girl [...]
I overheard on the radio about this Australian company who is rewarding returning mothers to their workforce by paying them Double their salary when they return to work, for the first 6 weeks. My first impression was – “Oh hell No – don’t let any of my female employees find out about this!” For those [...]
If your sitting in your HR office right now reading this, about to create some new HR stuff – stop – your wasting our time (and by “our” I mean all of us employees in the organization). “Wow – look who woke up on the wrong side of the week!” It’s not that I don’t [...]
In HR we have to have a strategy for everything. What’s your employment brand strategy? What’s your orientation strategy? What’s your open enrollment strategy? It’s not really strategies for most of these – they’re processes – but we get hit over the head so many times in HR we stopped calling our “processes” – “processes” [...]
In the corporate world everyone is a critic! Everyone! We’ve gotten really good at a learned behavior – no longer can we send out a final product the first time. Why? Because everyone wants to trash it and change it – so it can be this really nice piece of Vanilla! Welcome to Corporate America. [...]
Acting Brand New: (definition via Urban Dictionary): When a person displays that they are better than their friends, or treats their friends indifferently, especially where there has been a relationship of good standing previously; hence the term ‘new’. i.e. without any history with you. Or, Using it in a sentence: “Why Jamie acting brand new [...]
I was reading an article recently, it was one of those “Best Places To Work” type of articles. Since I run a company, I’m always looking out for good ideas on how to take care of your employees without spending a dime – unfortunately – “Best Places” companies that make these lists usually don’t give [...]
You know the crazy thing about drowning? It doesn’t look like you’re drowning! Read this from Mario Vittone: Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled, before speech occurs. Drowning people’s [...]
Have you ever worked for a boss that was horrible? That’s an easy question to answer, isn’t it! The person came immediately to your mind (for my staff reading this, if I came to your mind first, your fired! I tease – you’re not fired – just come see me after your done reading this…) [...]
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