For decades, HR professionals have played an unspoken career game: chase the biggest logo you can land. The assumption baked into this – that working for a massive, household-name enterprise signals intelligence and ambition, while toiling at a mid-market privately-held
The Yard Sale Theory of Talent Optimization
Last Saturday I woke up at 5 AM, loaded my car with boxes of things I no longer needed, drove to a friend’s house, and spent the next eight hours standing in a driveway selling them to strangers. Five households,
Guilty Until Proven Sick
At some point in your career, you’ve probably been asked to produce a doctor’s note to prove you were sick. You were neither hospitalized nor were you contagious with something requiring a hazmat response. You were just… sick. The kind
HR’s Groundhog Day: Don’t Retreat When Change Shows Up
Every February 2nd, a chubby rodent emerges from a burrow in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, squints at the crowd, and delivers a weather forecast that’s accurate roughly 40% of the time. Which, depending on your perspective, is either charmingly hopeful or spectacularly
