Archive for August, 2009

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Seriously, If You Have Ever Used a Canned Performance Appraisal You Should Be Fired

Monday, August 31st, 2009

SHRM’s leadership shines bright again with this offering of the week at the SHRM Bookstore: Ready-To-Use Performance Appraisals.
I can’t make this stuff up, folks.
If you’re a manager, there’s nothing more important than managing. That means giving guidance. It means telling people what you know. It means hiring people who are smarter and more talented [...]

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Crisis in Business is Rarer than Unicorns

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

You know what’s a crisis? Drought. Famine. Disease. Nuclear annihilation.
You what’s not a crisis? Meetings. Rumors. Performance reviews. Fake deadlines.
When you get as old as me you’ve seen a few things come and a few things go. I’ve worked for a lot of years in leadership positions and as a business owner. I [...]

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Everything You Think about Pay for Performance Could Be Wrong

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

There’s a mismatch between what science knows and business does. — Dan Pink
I read this article about motivation on SwissMiss:
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think.
The movie that’s embedded below can bring [...]

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I Got Laid Off, and I’m Finally Doing Something That Matters

Monday, August 24th, 2009

My friend Donna, who runs Sheer Brick Studio, led me to The Lemonade Movie. The trailer here tells the story of a few of the 70,000+ advertising professionals who have been laid off in this economy and what they’re doing with their lives. My favorite line is the one in the title of this article: [...]

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Wanna See Something Cool? The Field Guide to HR Species on the Verge of Extinction in Design

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Shawn, our art director, took our article 10 Human Resources Species on the Verge of Extinction and turned it into a graphic design. To check out what he did, and how much difference design makes in communication, click here.