You commonly hear an equity firm or venture capital partner claim to invest in the people. Well, when it comes to costs, …
It’s true, your boss is a psychopath — UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE?
From the weekly, always insightful, Boston Globe Ideas Section, I give you this week’s UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE [their capitalization, not mine]. This section usually …
The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered — 3 Views
This morning I read something that made me hold my, very hot, coffee, in my mouth, far longer than intended to process the Laura …
Low risk, low return human resources
My 11-odd-years in business and talent management consulting, the other nine years in marketing, have shown a few disturbing trends that …
5 reasons human resources hurt consumer brands
Every person connected to your organization is in sales and marketing. Each interaction anyone connected to your company, your government agency, …
The great spare-time revolution
Free time, spare time, where to find time.
For those who feel they have no spare time: Wikipedia articles represent around 100 million hours of human labor.
100 million hours!
Where do people find that time for a thankless, unpaid endeavor? Motivation.
More workers voluntarily quit their jobs
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal presented More Workers Start to Quit. Workers voluntarily quit and reject the feeling that they are lucky to …
Isn’t it enough that I told them?
Information is a one-way presentation, communication is a two-way dialogue. Communication has to include a feedback loop to be called communication. …
Talent score report brought to you by your credit agency
How’s your credit score? Perhaps I could ask another way, how accurate is your credit score? Perhaps another way, how accurate …
All hail the solution to the micromanager
Micromanagers grind work to halt and wastes resources, requisite organization is framework that looks at strategy with time as a critical element for how work is assigned, done, and managed. Requisite organization, or requisite uncertainty, is a great way to empower employees, maximize resources, and modify micromanagers.
The NFL draft and your company recruiting strategy (round 2)
The NFL draft reveals all things wrong with talent acquisition and recruiting. Looking at how an NFL team drafts provides terrific …
The NFL draft and your company recruiting strategy
There is little doubt each National Football League (NFL) team spends an extraordinary amount of resources preparing to draft their number …
Human capital assessments — the symptom or the disease
The drive to evaluate operations and to contain costs is mistakenly applied as an operational issue across the board. Too often a …
Notes from Boston: the state of US venture capital
This was originally posted in the nowEurope, where I post as a contributor. nowEurope reported on technology innovation in Central Europe Centrope …
Human capital portfolio management and simple math
A venture’s viability really comes down to a bet on a team to deliver. It is the interpersonal process where venture performance …
Googled again: cost of culture is innovation
What, really, is the cost of culture? Is culture tangible to business bottom line or is culture an intangible behavioral science …
Googled: the cost of culture
What does culture really costs a company? Is it worth investing in culture or passively letting culture form, also known as …
The cost of human capital is emotional intelligence
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a capacity to recognize how our own emotions motivate ourselves and the awareness of our emotions on …