HR/Business News Interviews & other highlights

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Good Times or Bad, Everyone is Watching What Management is Doing

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“In the end, I want to know that the next paycheck is coming. Everything else is secondary.” I thought of that statement from an employee...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Where’s the Beef? It Takes More Than a New Title to Create Business Value

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“So, what does the new title mean?” She had walked out on Friday as a generalist and returned on Monday with a new title of Business P...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

3 Steps to Help You Own Up When You Make The Big Mistake

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“We know we were sloppy. We know we were stupid. We know there was bad judgment. We don’t know if any of that is true yet. Of course regul...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Building Relationships: You Must Dig the Well Before You Need the Water

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Six years ago, Fred had a friendship with a rep for a small brand. The brand’s contribution to our sales was insignificant, so going to a d...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Key to Successful Mergers? It’s Usually About People and Culture

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“I knew enough to allow them to handle their own culture, headquarters and management,” said Paul Murry, CEO of Calvin Klein, a PVH Corp. c...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

How Retention is Like Gardening: At Times, You Need to Change the Soil

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“What time did you get in last night,” I asked my daughter. “Around 3 am,” she answered. It was now 5:45 am and I was leaving the house. ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Offering a Hand: Who in the Talent Pipeline Are You Helping to Pull Up?

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"As she climbs up the ladder she has the other hand extended to bring someone else along." I was watching Oprah’s Lifeclass t...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Recruiting 3.0: Today, It’s All About “Making Meaningful Connections”

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This is my tweet (see below) from Thursday afternoon after I got a glimpse of this campaign to find a new CTO. Not only that, but the pe...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

How Would You Do If You Were Ranked By Your Former Employees?

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I saw and interesting article this week about a Glassdoor survey  which shows that the highest rated CEO is Tim Cook of Apple. His appro...