I love pithy little phrases. I’m a sucker for the well-turned flick of the tongue. I read quote compilations for fun.
Guess where my favorite quote came from. A sugar packet. Here it is (provenance unknown):
Never apologize. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe you anyway.
I sat in airplane seats a couple of times more than I would have liked this week. And this Ultimate Interview Question popped in my head:
Do you recline your airplane seat? Explain.
First off, this human flipbook idea by Erbert & Gerbert is just plain cool. They made a bunch of t-shirts and then used stop-motion photography to make a little movie. How inventive.
That made me think about company t-shirt giveaways.
Wouldn’t it be cool to use this human flipbook idea for employee communication? You could [...]
How would you handle a superstar like Allen Iverson if he was on your team? Would you let him skip “practice”? Would you let him say anything goes as long as he delivers? What values do you want to promote when you promote an individual contributor instead of teamwork?
The HR Capitalist answers those questions today [...]
It’s funny, on my personal blog the ratio of comments to posts is 7:1. That’s over three years worth of data and something approaching 2,500 posts. Here, on KnowHR Blog, the ratio is more like 2:1. And that number is skewed a bit because a few posts got a lot of comments. Which has me [...]
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