Happy New Year!!

One of the nice things about being in Asia is that you get multiple New Years’ celebrations. Today is the first day of the new Lunar Year for Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Mongolian and Tibeten cultures (we’ll get to Thailand, Laos and Cambodia in April — different calendar). So from all of us here at Designing […]

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What About the Others?

This week has been all about promotions, so let’s finish it off with the same theme. When you get a big promotion, congratulations are in order. You have risen above other folks at work and moved into a new leadership position. The big bosses see in you the potential to do more. You have more […]

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Promoting for Potential – Part 2

As employees do well we want to reward them. There are lots of ways to do that: a pay raise, a bonus, an award, time off, a bigger office, tickets to a show…you have a lot of options. One thing you shouldn’t do, though, is promote them. This is not to say you should not […]

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Generation Z (No, It Doesn’t Stand for “Zombies”)

With all the creativity that led to Generation X being followed by Generation Y, we now have…Generation Z. This is generally considered to be the group born starting in the late 1990s. Other names have been suggested — my favorite so far is iGen — but they are young enough that we have plenty of […]

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Make Hiring Easy

Few things in life are less fun than the hiring process. No matter which side of it you are on, it is simply not a pleasant experience. Since people tend to move from firm to firm more often now, though, chances are you are going to spend more time in this process than you want. […]

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