Your employer is taking advantage of you
June 28, 2006
That’s the conclusion from our most recent blog poll in which we asked “At your company, do employees who do a better job get paid more?”
The results break down like this with the far larger group (58%) of respondents saying…
SaaS is about results
June 27, 2006
My favorite SaaS blogger, Phil Wainewright, has a great post from last week about the real benefit of SaaS: It lets everyone focus on results.
He puts it better than I could:
Now, for the first time since that wrong turn the…
Better to be passionate than smart
June 19, 2006
Or so Seth Godin seems to say. Here, he advocates for hiring passionate people who may or may not be particularly efficient or effective. Truth be told, I tend to agree with him.
I’m dealing with a situation now with my…
Headless Harvard
June 19, 2006
If you’ve stayed current on Harvard’s leadership difficulties involving President Lawrence Summers’ rocky 5 year tenure, you know that he recently conducted his last commencement. (If you haven’t stayed current, I don’t blame you. Not even a little.)
One would think that…
HR wisdom
June 15, 2006
Gautam reminds us of an old HR saying –
“A players hire other A players
B players hire C players
C players should never be hiring…”
Any other HR wisdom anyone would like to share? That could be a fun project.
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Do benefits matter?
June 15, 2006
Of course they do? But why?
Well, according to this McKinsey survey, everyone thinks they matter for reasons like employee attraction and retention, meeting responsibilities to employees and so on. But when asked whether in fact they actually do matter, in other…
systematicHR interviews SuccessFactors
June 13, 2006
Wanted to point you to an interview that DubDubs at systematicHR did with our very own Rob Bernshteyn. He just published the article, but the interview was done a ways back. In any case, I think Dubs picks up one…
Why new employees fail
June 1, 2006
According to this Fortune article, it’s because they don’t know what’s expected of them. “A big reason is that a huge percentage of new employees, including new managers, are not clearly told what they were hired to do or what…
A sad, sad fable…
June 1, 2006
About an American company. As told by Jason Corsello.
It’s an entertaining tale, you should read it even if just for a laugh. But it make you take note of the fact that Performance management ain’t a cure for stupidity, –…
