Six Problems with Business Meetings
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in General Business | 1 Comment »Today, I spent the entire day in one long meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to reach a consensus on four issues and submit a recommendation to a decision making committee comprised of executives for final approval. It ...
Corporations’ Expectations of College Graduates
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Expectations | No Comments »Graduating from college and getting your first job is kind of like being pushed from the nest and being expected to fly without hitting the ground, or at least that's the way it feels. For an early twenty-something, you've ...
Top Five Things You Won’t Learn in Business School
Friday, March 21st, 2008 Posted in Off Topic | 1 Comment »With a bevy of excellent business schools, both grad and undergrad, available and the potentially high stakes of getting accepted to a top tier school, you'd think that you'd learn everything you need to know there. This is not ...
Bear Stearns Billionaire Blunder
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Off Topic | No Comments »At this point, the Bear Sterns debacle has gotten extensive coverage so I won't comment on the unfortunate demise of this once mighty company. As I read through the news stories, though, I found one piece of information often significantly ...
Hiring Freezes Create a Cycle of Failure
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Management | No Comments »Anyone who has worked in the corporate world for even a few years has probably experienced a hiring freeze. As you might guess from the name, this is where companies stop (freeze) all hiring. Personally, I could never ...
Five Reasons HR Should NOT Report to Line Management
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in General HR | No Comments »For the past decade or more, there has been a significant push in both academic and professional circles to transform the Human Resources function from an administrative unit into something more strategic. HR needs a "seat at the table" ...
Most Important Interview Technique Revealed
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in Recruiting | 1 Comment »There are many sources of good advice on interviewing for a job, so I'm not going to re-hash them. However, there is one critical technique that is almost always ignored. One technique that has personally made a huge difference in my ...
How Much Parental Leave Is Appropriate?
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Employee Relations | No Comments »To start with, this post is geared towards the United States, since the US has a fairly low (12 weeks) legally required leave period. I should also say we need to admit that there should be a balance in ...
Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Compensation & Benefits, Performance Management | 3 Comments »One of the most commonly accepted and rarely questioned axioms in all the whole canon of Human Resources knowledge is that pay and performance should be linked. But is this really the best approach? The logic is simple and that's ...
The Perfect PM Appraisal…One Page
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Performance Management | No Comments »As software has revolutionized the way company's do business by streamlining processes and eliminating paperwork, it has also made performance management much more complicated. It's easy to get excited about creating fully featured PM processes and documents that cover every possible ...
