“… if your organization is still treating HR like a compliance function…”

“… you’re missing the power that is available to you when you hire human beings to work on your team.” That quote is from an article by Liz Ryan on Forbes, also summarized here. I couldn’t agree more and I’ve been… Continue Reading

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What’s it like to work at ESPN?

I worked there from 2005 to 2011. Here are some thoughts on that time. Continue Reading

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Funny: B2B inbound marketing is essentially akin to stalking

KoMarketing Associates — they have a pretty good presence on LinkedIn, as an aside — did a little recap of InBound 2014 (the Hubspot conference) on their site. They tried to focus on six major themes that emerged from it, and… Continue Reading

What if Human Resources made one small change to the on-boarding process?

I’ve written about the on-boarding process a couple of times — notably this blog post — because I think it’s really interesting how little time / thinking / attention / context is typically paid to it, despite the fact that… Continue Reading

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What’s the worst workplace buzzword?

Many others have tackled this topic — here, here, here and here — but I wanted to try and get a list down as well. I have a friend out in Seattle and her and her husband do this on… Continue Reading

Only about a third of people seemingly want to be managers

CareerBuilder did a survey — it’s also summarized on Harvard Business Review — where they sampled 3,625 workers in different industries, different pay ranges, etc. — and asked them about their desire to eventually become a manager. Only 34 percent (a little over… Continue Reading

Don’t hire millennials for social media jobs

Let’s say you assume that the concept of a “digital native” is someone who mostly grew up in the age of the Internet and, more specifically, Google (which was an early organizing force of the Internet). Google first got big… Continue Reading

Sales isn’t about ‘closing’

I recently saw this on HubSpot’s blog — it’s essentially snippets of sales advice from professionals that you can then ‘click to tweet.’ (It’s amazing how many people 55 and over think ‘click to tweet’ is ingenious. It really is amazing.)… Continue Reading