You can feel a culture change at work before you can chart it. The air gets heavy. The jokes at the all-hands meeting don’t quite land, decisions stretch like taffy at the State Fair, and the most polite people in
The Kindly Skeptic: HR’s Most Underrated Leadership Trait
I love enthusiasm. I also love a well-timed pause – the kind that comes from someone with a furrowed brow asking a question like, “Hang on…what are we actually doing here?” That’s the Kindly Skeptic at work: the colleague who
HR and the Theatre of Work
HR needs more camp. Not camp as in “offsite team building” with trust falls and s’mores (though I support snacks as strategy). I mean camp – as in theatrical, ironic, glitter-drenched camp. The kind of camp Oscar Wilde showcased, Susan
What Fuels the HR Stereotype?
The HR busybody. You’ve seen (or worked with!) the caricature: clipboard in hand, cardigan-clad, casting disapproving glances at the unhealthy food in the vending machine and keeping suspiciously close tabs on when you leave for lunch. It’s a trope that
