Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
HAVE YOU EVER heard a manager ever say that they DON’T have an open door policy? I haven’t, and I would guess nobody else has either. That’s because it’s one of those platitudes that leaders fall back on because they know that saying you’re always accessible is a lot different than actually BEING accessible. In
I’VE DONE MY BEST to stay away from the AI hype machine. It hasn’t been easy. That’s because so many influential people have jumped on the Artificial Intelligence bandwagon, fueling both giddy excitement, and sometimes, fears of gloom and doom. But don’t look to me for any great insight on that. I’m a lower-your-expectations kind
I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS for a few months now: the job market is screwy and not nearly as good as everyone — especially the president — has been saying it is. I’m not as plugged into the recruiting and hiring space as I was for the past 20 years, but even I can hear the
I CAN’T TELL YOU how many times I longed for hybrid work. It wasn’t called that back when I first asked my boss about it in 2000, or again in 2007-2008, or even as recently as 2016. It wasn’t called hybrid, or remote, or anything back then, but it didn’t matter because I worked for
LEADERSHIP ISN’T EASY, and anyone who has been a leader knows that. I’ve worked as a journalist, editor, and writer for a number of years, yet what I REALLY know and excel at is … management. I’ve managed people and worked in leadership roles for the greater part of my adult life. That means that
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
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
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
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
