March 29th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

I'm deep in the middle of Henry Mintzberg's new book, Managing. While not a light read, he does take his typically provocative stand: Instead of distinguishing managers from leaders, we should ...more »

March 22nd, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

A recent issue of Workforce Week shares the results of a nuanced piece of data on performance feedback, from the Gallup organization. They surveyed 1000 US employees, placing them into ...more »

March 15th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

Hewitt Associates has published once again the bi-annual study they have lead since 2002, Top Companies of Leaders. They narrowed down over 500 entries to the top 25 North American companies ...more »

March 11th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

I began my career in the airline industry. I hit a spell when I was languishing in an uninspiring job, wasn't growing, and truth-be-told, wasn't trying very hard to change ...more »

March 8th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

Not surprisingly, although I had never heard about it before, there is a branch of brain research that studies: How cultural traits to which we are exposed impact our brains How our ...more »

March 4th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

It's notoriously hard to motivate people who work in repetitive or routine administrative or blue collar jobs. Adam Grant, management professor at the Wharton School of Business, however, has done ...more »

March 1st, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

At a recent HR networking event I attended Alice Waagen, President of Workforce Learning LLC, presented on "The Top 5 Skills for Human Resource Professionals." One of her five struck ...more »