A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article called Doesn’t HR Deserve to Be Engaged Too? And I received some interesting resistance both openly and privately. Some objected...
What are "yes" people? A "yes" man or "yes" woman would be what Dr. Robert E. Kelley of Carnegie-MellonUniversity would categorize as a conformist follower (Kelley, 1992). These individuals...
For around 15 years, employers (at least the ones who were awake) have been caught up in the chase for high employee engagement. Those were the days when unemployment...
A friend of mine lost his job recently. He is an extremely dependable, capable and extraordinarily competent employee beloved by his staff and his customers and well-respected in his...
HR puts feet to dreams. When leaders and entrepreneurs lie awake at night and spin grand castles in the air, pretty soon they have to start asking themselves where...
So the 2011 Fortune Best Companies to Work for list has been out new for several months. Did anyone really notice it this year, except for the winning 100...
Recession, reform and regulation have thrust businesses into a new era. The status quo is now the “status isn’t.” Surviving the difficult economy required businesses to re-evaluate its resources,...
I’m not sure what compelled me to finally pull out the lessons I had collected while working in Uganda in 2011. But today, as I work these lessons like...