Strategy and operations aren’t the same thing
Please stop confusing a planning process with a strategic one. Continue Reading
Work
Why don’t people contextualize their e-mails more?
E-mail is a scourge for many people — 89 billion of the business variety are sent every day, no one can stop checking it, and people devour articles about time hacks as relates to e-mail. Here’s what I sometimes wonder: why… Continue Reading
“… 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
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
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
Only about 1 in 10 Americans can balance being busy with being happy
The balance seems a bit depressing, right? Continue Reading
No one really wants bipartisanship
Of all the great political buzzwords (and there are many), “bipartisanship” might be one of the best ones. In some respects, it’s completely laughable. When you hear someone say it, you know it doesn’t really mean very much and can’t… Continue Reading