- 5 Pivotal Points Often Overlooked in Hiring The hiring process is fraught with uncertainty. Making the right hire is no sure thing, despite the increasingly large array of sophisticated tools available to managers. We see job candidates scrutinized, resumes inspected, credentials probed, and yet when all is said and done the selection process is [...]

A Guest Post by Andrew Hall of Pounding the Pavement When I was 20 years old, I was put in charge of an independent radio station. I been working for the station for several years in various capacities, but my new title was General Manager, and it was now my job to manage a team [...]

This is a guest post by Sean Conrad of Halogen Software. There are a lot of articles around today arguing both sides of the employee performance appraisal debate. Do they provide value to the employer and the employee? Are they an outdated HR/management practice? Do they do more harm than good? What can we do [...]

One of the great benefits of blogging is that you get to connect with people you would never meet in real life. David Burkus of the LeaderLab is providing this blog with his second guest post. If you want to read more from David, check out his previous guest post Lost in Definition or visit [...]

It started with Bennis. Bennis wrote that “Managers do things right, leaders do the right thing.” With all due respect to one of the brightest minds of leadership theory, I still have no idea what that is supposed to mean. Perhaps it’s the lack of clarity in the definition that set us on a crusade [...]

Are you giving your very best efforts at work? Are you fighting for that promotion? Why? One of the dangers about promotion is that you might get into a position that you can’t handle and then you will suck according to David Burkus. I totally agree with him on this. I have included a short [...]