It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. — Voltaire
Using layoffs as a business strategy is no strategy at all. Layoffs don’t work. They don’t create value.
We want to work for managers who create things. That’s a responsibility of CEOs. I’m [...]

This video, called Lost Generation, with worth watching. And thinking about. Time to calibrate, friends.

If you had to design your company (and HR) from scratch, would you:
–have performance reviews?
–build walls in your offices?
–ever use the word “boss” in a non-ironic way?
–hire average employees?
–keep a slacker?
–write a bereavement policy?
–pay women less than men?
–pay anyone unfairly?
–conduct “warm body” recruiting?
–hire more HR people to make up for bad managers?
–keep bad managers?
–use the [...]

My son, Matt, has a 98-year-old statistics professor this semester. Professor Ernest Kurnow has been teaching in NYU’s business school since 1948. Matt’s delighted to have him as a teacher. We should all be so lucky.
Where do old people fit in your diversity program? Do you even talk about them? In the next two decades, [...]

The Multi-Million Dollar Soda Venturebeat gives us something to think about today.
“Do you know how much our company is spending on free sodas and snacks?” And to answer her own question she presented the spreadsheet totaling it all up. There were some experienced VC’s in the room and I was waiting for them to educate [...]