76 percent of business interactions on social media are “neutral?” That’s boring.

Big organizations may have ruined social in some ways. They rushed in at one point trying to be cool, and now your NewsFeed and Timeline and whatever else can be cluttered with stuff about Fritos. This is a potential tipping… Continue Reading

The Monday after July 4th is conclusively the worst work day of the whole year

Admittedly, life would be better if every weekend was a three-day weekend, which is seemingly possible (and more possible in the summer). But when you think about the entire work year, can you conceive of a day worse than the Monday… Continue Reading

Moving to Dallas / Fort Worth later this month

I’ll keep this one relatively brief. If you’ve read this blog, you know a little bit about my graduate school run and some of the issues with getting a job afterwards — notably, I wrote about it here, here and… Continue Reading

What can a chef teach a businessman?

From an article that’s been popular on Harvard Business Review for the past week (and yet, depressingly, I feel no one with an office job will actually follow the advice of): If you’re working in the kitchen of Anthony Bourdain, legendary chef… Continue Reading

Maybe it is time to split Human Resources into two or three distinct areas

I had a lot of focus on organizational development and base HR practices in graduate school, and as such, I write about it a lot. For a long time now, I’ve been thinking that HR is handled wrong in most mid-size… Continue Reading

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Where do people seemingly want to work? In two words: San Francisco

Cities have regularly been of the mindset that if they lower taxes for businesses, said businesses will come running and put up shiny HQ buildings in said cities. In reality, that’s not the case; businesses like to be near available… Continue Reading

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Brief thought exercise: should recruiting really go through Human Resources?

Can the “compliance” brain reconcile with the “need for innovative talent” brain? Continue Reading

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Could Google Glass change the fundamental way we work?

Google Glass isn’t really even that widely available yet, and it’s already a divisive issue. Heck, Alamo Drafthouse is already banning it! But perhaps the issue here is context: we’re all thinking about this in terms of regular ol’ people on the street… Continue Reading