Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
THANK GOD FOR GALLUP, because if it weren’t for them, I doubt that anyone would be focusing very much on employee engagement these days. Just last week, Gallup came out with their latest installment of “How low can engagement go?” with this headline — U.S. Engagement Hits 11-Year Low. The subhed on the story told
Editor’s Note: My usual Monday wrap-up is taking a break this week, but here’s a classic Skeptical Guy post back from May 2019 that seems oddly appropriate in the Age of AI. EVEN I GET SURPRISED when I see something like this: The Wall Street Journal reports that companies are now turning to robots to
LEAVE IT TO Josh Bersin to push an old-school management practice in a AI-focused, 21st Century world. This past week, Josh had an interesting blog post titled The Labor Market Has Totally Changed: Are You Really Ready? As always, he made some great points about how the labor market has changed as Baby Boomers like me
HERE’S A WELL KNOWN hiring practice that is as stupid and shortsighted today as it was when I first encountered it nearly 30 years ago. It popped up — again — in a BBC story this past week titled The “ghost jobs” employers never fill. As the BBC described it: “Job boards like LinkedIn and
Editor’s note: This coming Sunday, March 24, is remembered by Christians as Palm Sunday. This popular post was first published here back in March 2018. I’M ALWAYS STRUCK BY the quiet lesson of Palm Sunday. Here in my little church in Yorba Linda, we wave palm branches and sing hosannas as we remember Jesus Christ’s triumphant entry
IF YOU HAVE TO GO to a conference, there are few places better to do it than Las Vegas. Not only does the city have a giant Convention Center, but many large hotels — Caesars Palace, the Aria, the Venetian and Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, Wynn and Encore, MGM Grand, and the Red Rock Resort, just
HERE’S A PROBLEM that I struggled with when I was a middle manager. It popped up in places I worked from Kentucky to Hawaii, and was detailed recently in a Harvard Business Review story titled When New Hires Get Paid More, Top Performers Resign. First. As the summary in HBR describes it: “To attract new
Editor’s Note: I’ve been occasionally reposting some popular articles from the past. This one was published here back in June 2018. JUST WHEN I’M ABOUT ready to finally give up on human nature, something happens that helps to give me a little hope again. And believe it or not, this new hope comes courtesy of controversial radio personality
GETTING EMPLOYEES BACK in the office is a full-time job. The debate over return to work policies continues and shows no sign of going away anytime soon. A story this past week from Bloomberg cuts to the heart of the issue: “Nearly four years after pandemic-induced office shutdowns, the fight over working remotely or showing
Editor’s Note: I’ve been occasionally reposting some popular articles from the past. This one was published here back in March 2019. HERE’S A WORKPLACE TRUISM : Good people frequently get fired. Steve Jobs got fired from Apple, eventually returning to build it into the high-flying, trend-setting company that it is today. Oprah Winfrey, Walt Disney, and
