Sometimes, you can sense the shift before it becomes visible. The mood in the office – or across the virtual grid – tightens and conversations flatten. There’s a hesitancy in tone, a retreat behind polite professionalism, and an unmistakable heaviness
How Bad Business Processes Break Good People
We’ve all seen it. A well-intentioned, talented, motivated employee slowly ground down by an inflexible process that was last updated during the Bush administration. (The first one.) They’re not underperforming. They’re trying to navigate an obstacle course built out of
Help Wanted: A Review
HR folks spend their days navigating sexy stuff like organizational policies, metrics, performance reviews and trying to understand AI. But what they should do – and the “care of whom” where they should focus their time – is people. I
The Two-Week Notice is Total BS
It’s time to address an annoying, longstanding, and frankly outdated tradition: the two-week notice. A business practice that is as obsolete as fax machines and paper resumes. Once upon a time, in an era lost to the mists of time,
