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“If data suggests a hiring problem…” How would HR know? Are they analytical?

People Analytics

Who tends to enter HR and hiring silos? Data ninjas? Not exactly, guys. Continue Reading

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Diversity initiatives are a carnival ride of nothingness

Round and round we go. Continue Reading

“They want to jump to strategy without understanding anything else.”

Harvard professors, academic wokeness, and the virtues behind work. Continue Reading

Are you doing the work, or cultivating your own personal brand? Hopefully both, fam.

Do you want black squares, or do you want progress in an apex predator company? Continue Reading

For “inclusion” to work, we have to understand psychology and strip the bullshit buzzwords

This is worth getting right, but our approach to it is very often flawed. Continue Reading

The Blunder Years, Episode 53: Being an outsider and dealing with difference

If you grow up as a member of the only Jewish family in a small Texas town, how do you come to think about inclusion and difference? Continue Reading

The Blunder Years, Episode 36: “Nobody’s f*cking equal!”

The myth of team diversity

How equal are we, really? And if we’re not that equal, what does that mean for both raising kids and HR best practices? A conversation. Continue Reading

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The last thing HR needs is more buzzwords. Hello, “belonging.”

Often, the problem with D&I initiatives is that we create a lot of buzzwords and jargon, and executives don’t “get” it, so they eventually ignore it. Continue Reading