I’ve recently run into problems with my yahoo account. I’ve owned this particular account since 1997 and have diligently paid yahoo $20 a year for the additional mail features (pop access, more storage, etc) and have always had a good luck with it…until recently. Last week I tried logging into my account to check up [...]
Mass Career Customization
September 27, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I recently finished reading Mass Career Customization, the newly released book from Deloitte’s Cathleen Benko and Anne Weisberg (published by Harvard Business Press). The Quick review: Great book with some excellent ideas. The long review (well…not real long): The authors do a very good job of outlining the issues and trends that are pressing employees [...]
Interviewing Tips for Interviewers – Round 2
September 26, 2007 By 1 Comment
Have you ever walked into an interview with a preconceived notion of the job you were interviewing for and after during/after the interview you felt that the job you were told about wasn’t the job you interviewed for? In a previous article titled “Interviewing Tips for Interviewers,” I gave interviewers five tips for interviewing. These [...]
Follow-up to Employee Onboarding
September 18, 2007 By Leave a Comment
This post is a follow up to my post titled “Employee Onboarding“. Research reported on a recent Management Issues article titled “How to lose half your hires within a year” provides a bit more insight into the Employee Onboarding problem in the US. They report (bolded text is my emphasis): A study by consultancy Novations [...]
Innovation
September 17, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Articles and books about Innovation are everywhere. Every organization talks about increasing innovation…and they talk…and they talk. Instead of talking about ‘how to innovate’ and trying to implement ‘innovation groups’, perhaps organizations need to just let their people work on topics that interest them. There are many organizations touting their ‘innovation networks’ and ‘processes to [...]
