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Performance reviews / evaluations are mostly a train wreck that everyone hates. So what do we do?

Here’s some new research on ‘performance appraisal satisfaction,’ or, phrased in more layman’s terms, “how people feel about the idea of performance reviews.” To avoid traipsing in the deep end of academia, let’s turn to The Washington Post to let us know… Continue Reading

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Year Up, fresh off the 60 Minutes profile, could be a hugely positive thing — or maybe it’s just a calculated media play

Last night, 60 Minutes profiled Year Up, a non-profit organization that basically takes disadvantaged, poverty-stricken students and gives them an intense career boot camp experience in either IT or financial operations. Ultimately, many of the graduates of the program — right now… Continue Reading

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Joe McCormack and — OMG, no one is listening to anyone else literally at all in the workplace

If you like this post, feel free to share it around; the share buttons are at the bottom of the page. Thank you for taking the time to check this out.  Joe McCormack is a managing partner/founder of the Sheffield… Continue Reading

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Tremendous truism about Big Data: C-Level executives value it, but have no idea what to do with it

Tremendous headline over on CIO right now: C-Level Execs Value Data, Have No Idea What To Do With It. This could be an earlier leader on the nerd/wonk front for best headline of the year, because it is unflinchingly and utterly true. You… Continue Reading

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How Google, Mercedes Benz and other top companies become “the best places to work”

I’m endlessly interested in how people are engaged and motivated by their work in the absence of insane compensation packages, so this new post from Fast Company was intriguing. It starts with the ‘100 Best Places To Work’ list, which is released… Continue Reading

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My hair is the reason America’s hiring practices and talent strategy is off

I’ll make no secret about a couple of different facts: for one, while I’m currently a graduate student, my schedule is such that I could be working full-time or part-time, and this would be beneficial in terms of bills and helping out… Continue Reading

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In which things like Badgeville and gamification destroy the office world

There’s a broad idea called ‘gamification’ — essentially, turning something fairly tangible (education, business) into a game that can be tracked and lead to rewards. It’s obviously a controversial approach and the data on it is a little bit not all… Continue Reading

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One of the greatest challenges of our time? How to motivate employees aside from simple compensation models

There’s a profile of Mark Zuckerberg in The Wall Street Journal that’s getting some attention for a couple of different reasons: first off, Zuckerberg doesn’t do profiles very often, so the base idea is rare. Second off, it’s a wide-ranging portrait of… Continue Reading