Sometimes you have an employee that is just not showing as much promise as they did during their interview and you have to let them go. While unpleasant, this is a necessary part of the job to keep the company streamlined. On the other hand, you don’t want the people who are exceeding expectations to […]
So you’re in your office, working on important human resources business, when all of a sudden you hear shouting coming from outside your glass windows. You walk out to see Joe and Joanne fighting over a stapler, but it’s clear that this is about much more than a stapler. Years of submersed minor conflicts between […]
There are two kinds of work tasks: those that need to be done on a regular basis, ‘the routines,’ and then those that appear every now and then unexpectedly and need to be dealt with, ‘the outliers.’ Like the matching section of your old elementary school history tests, you will sometimes need to decide which […]
I think the internet is the most important thing mankind has invented in the past 500 years, even more so than penicillin. In the last 60 years we have seen an explosion of growth and progress simply unparalleled by any other time in human history and it is all thanks to the invention and commercialization […]
Listen, the foundation of human nature is that we like to be free; free to dance how we want, eat what we want, be what we want, and do what we want. The more we are restricted the more upset we get, the more annoyed we get, and the more negative we get. Once you […]