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,
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
Two HR Lies We Need to Stop Believing in 2026
It’s almost 2026 but rather than another prediction post or retrospective listicle, I decided to offer a reckoning and call out two HR fictions we need to eliminate in 2026. Are these “lies we tell ourselves” malicious? Not really. But
