Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
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
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
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
HERE’S ANOTHER WRINKLE to the debate over remote and hybrid work — it’s called chronoworking. That’s not a word that rolls off the tongue easily, and it was new to me when I read a BBC Worklife story about it titled The ‘chronoworking’ productivity hack that helps workers excel. So, what is “chronoworking?” As BBC
I’M NOT GOING TO spend a lot of time writing about the ebb and flow or the ups and downs of Artificial Intelligence. There’s already a TON of that coming from everywhere else. This isn’t a big surprise. As I wrote here recently, “You’ll be seeing a lot more stories about the overhyping of AI
REWARDING EMPLOYEES can be a tricky business. It’s also hard for many organizations to get right no matter how good their intentions are. The key to it — and this is critically important — is that whatever you give employees to say thank you for their hard work must make them feel like you sincerely
JOSH BERSIN IS A MAN with many predictions. He’s known from his role as a long-time technology analyst and frequent keynote speaker. In fact, Josh headlines so many of these events that I posed this question over on TLNT after last October’s big HR Technology event in Las Vegas: “What will conferences like this do
YOU DON’T HEAR all that much about employee engagement anymore. It’s still an important metric for organizations to get a fix on the state of their workforce, but after years of debate and lots of money spent on how to improve engagement, it seems to be another thing that slipped away after the pandemic-driven lockdown.
