A Traveling Nightmare – When My Job Shows Its Ugly Teeth
Hello, all! I’m writing this to you from my “second office,” which is my fancy code word for “tiny baby…
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Creating a Great Culture Even With Temporary or Entry-Level Workers
Hi everyone! Matt Havens here again. Last month I stepped in for Jeff to talk about performance reviews. Since nobody…
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How to Fail a Job Interview Part 2
We brought back Part 1 last month and here is the follow-up. We interviewed real Human Resource executives across the…
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What Airlines Taught me About the Power of Repetition
I’d like to apologize to the airline industry. I’m sorry, airline industry, because I’m about to make fun of you.…
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Putting Steve Jobs in Perspective
The Price of Focusing Too Much on ‘Greatness’ So yet another Steve Jobs movie came out a few months ago. …
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Traveling Outside Your Comfort Zone
So last month I went to Jamaica for the first time, where I was keynoting a conference for a bunch…
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It’s Performance Review Time!
Hi everyone! Matt Havens here stepping in for Jeff this month. Jeff and I had the opportunity to catch up…
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The Two Types of Innovation
Greetings, all! I’m writing this from the back of a giraffe. I’m upside down, too, since that makes the blood…
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Three Reasons Your Current Leadership Training Completely and Totally Sucks
(And Three Ways To Fix It) I’d like to begin by saying that this article isn’t an attack on you…
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Why People Prefer Innovation to Invention
So innovation is a big buzzword these days. (Do people still say ‘buzzword’? Is buzzword still a buzzword?) Approximately half…
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