Dream Big
A couple weeks ago I fulfilled a 6-year goal of completing the Marathon Grand Slam, which involves running a marathon on all seven continents and at the North Pole. Pursuit of this goal has played a central role in my life and been a critical element of my professional and personal decisions since 2010. The […]
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May, 04, 2016
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Celebrating the Comeback Kids
Back when I was teaching in an HR master’s degree program, one of my students was involved in a project at her company called The Comeback Kids. It’s a recruiting program that focuses on bringing back former employees, and it’s the sort of thing you should consider. Having employees leave your firm is not necessarily […]
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Apr, 29, 2016
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Avoiding a Culture of Fear
Are your employees afraid to make mistakes? A student once talked to me about feeling overwhelmed by a project I had assigned them. He told me he was unable to sleep the night after getting it, and he used the word “fear” four times in the conversation. There is absolutely no reason at all that […]
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Apr, 25, 2016
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Take a Break
Even people who love what they do need a break. One of the nice things about leading talented people is that very often they are passionate about what they do. If you have people who do not mind going to work, or are in fact looking forward to it, that’s a good thing. Speaking for […]
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Apr, 22, 2016
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Education is a Sunk Cost
Lots of people make career decisions based on what they have done in the past rather than on what they want to do in the future. A big factor in that is education. I cannot count how many times I have heard someone talking about a job they would enjoy and then say “but I […]
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Apr, 18, 2016
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