Corporate America

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Companies – Your RTO Should Be Carefully Considered!

This post got quite a bit of play on LinkedIn, so I thought it would appropriate to share it with clients and potential clients on my blog: Companies should carefully consider “why” they feel the need to make every employee return to the office five days a week. This is far more about “controlling people” […]

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Stop Treating Employees Like Resources, and Start Treating Them As Humans!

  If you treat your employees as if they are a “cost” or “resource” and not as a human, or don’t care about them except as a potential source of revenue, you hamper your company’s ability to be successful. Treat your employees the way you would treat your most valued client and watch your company

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Adapt well to changing plans and priorities and deal comfortably with ambiguity: Who Writes This Stuff?

Well, this should NEVER be in a job ad: “Must adapt and deal comfortably with ambiguity.” However, I have been seeing it quite a bit in recent years.  Particularly since COVID.  That isn’t an excuse to put such a statement in a job ad.  Certainly, this occurs in a workplace occasionally, but ambiguity is defined

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Think You’re Overqualified Because Your Bored at Your Job?

According to a 2023 Gallup Poll, “68% of employees believe they are overqualified for their current job”. Remember, just because you’ve become bored with a job doesn’t make you overqualified. Doing the same thing day after day can be boring, but it doesn’t make you ready for the next level, necessarily. So, what can you

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It's All About Control

It’s All About Control

It was National Employee Appreciation Day last month, but you can’t tell.  While individuals are increasingly seeking a better balance in their work, companies are pushing back.  Despite the fact things changed permanently after March of 2020, many corporations haven’t recognized this reality.  All that wonderful talk about taking care of people has been replaced

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Tech War for Talent – Is It Over?

Referencing comment to article on cooling of the war for tech talent, and they “why’s” behind it. Here are my observations as to why, and advice to keep it from happening to other companies, tech or otherwise: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/is-the-tech-war-for-talent-over-4827217/ So many startups were like many large companies prior to the great recession that started in 2006.

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RETAIN YOUR GOOD EMPLOYEES?

Companies complain they are bleeding experienced employees, or laughing off the exodus by saying it’s just part of the Great Migration.  If you are seeing this happen in your company, ask yourself some serious questions, and stop making assumptions.  Every talented employee is a loss of productivity, innovation, brain trust, and good will.  How long

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The Hiring Decision Problem

A colleague (Bernie Reifkind) recently posted the following on LinkedIn: ME: Respectfully, will there be a JOB OFFER forthcoming? My job candidate has been on 5 interviews over 2 months.CLIENT: We should know something by the end of next week.ME: Respectfully you are running the risk of losing this candidate, she is entertaining other offers.CLIENT:

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