Everyone wants to be up in arms about Kelly Blazek and her e-mails, but stuff like that happens a lot

If you haven’t heard the story, here’s the basics: Kelly Blazek runs a job bank in Cleveland (OH). Diana Mekota, a millennial, was looking to connect with Blazek — who has a strong LinkedIn presence and ties to some hiring managers… Continue Reading

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In 2022, you probably want to be working in health care, and you may want to be living in New Mexico or Greenville, NC

Cool article — fun with maps! — on The Atlantic Cities by way of Richard Florida recently, which details, essentially, job growth in the U.S. in the next 10 years. Here’s what you basically need to understand about all this. 1. You would… Continue Reading

Shift your narrative, bro: men actually work at home more than women, in most cases

This is a shift we don’t talk about enough: really, only in the past 60-70 years or so has childbirth in most of America/the world even been a choice, and that’s correlated (or timed out) with a rise in female education… Continue Reading

Did Warby Parker shift the entire retail model?

A big discussion in retail the past three to five years has been “brick and mortar” vs. “online,” as if those ideas were two completely disparate worlds that could never possibly interact. That’s how places like Wal-Mart and Best Buy… Continue Reading

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Recruiting and how the ‘Rule of 3’ breaks down: communication, meetings, cross-purposes

Feel like I’ve been posting a lot recently about the flaws in the recruiting process, so I’ll keep this one a little brief to avoid overload on that front. I saw this Lou Adler post on LinkedIn today about “The… Continue Reading

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eBay had a $50 billion value cap turnaround, but it’s not because of CEO John Donahoe, per se. It’s because of Jack Abraham and a secret trip to Australia.

This won’t be a long post, because Nicholas Carlson at Business Insider did all the heavy lifting, but I want to write something about it quickly, because it really is a good story about how challenging the established system can sometimes… Continue Reading

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ObamaCare won’t cost America 2 million jobs, but the end of the Baby Boomers probably will

Big-time hubbub on the 2014 political front: ObamaCare is going to cost America 2 million jobs! Every Democrat is vulnerable! And… In reality, this isn’t going to happen the way it’s being discussed, but the amount of people in the U.S. workforce is… Continue Reading

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The middle ground of setting goals for your employees at work is extremely murky

No matter what type of work you do — white-collar, blue-collar, physical therapist, construction worker, corporate CIO — everything comes back, ultimately, to goals. (Not to get too deep here, but so does life.) When you end up managing others, you… Continue Reading