On Babies, Bathwater, AI Recruiting, and HR
AI recruiting has been around longer than most realize. But smart leaders are wise about how they use it.
Give Your Workforce a Present Next Year… LISTEN to Them Better!
One of the best things you can do for your 2026 bottom line is to listen to your workforce better. Not just cleaning out your ears to hear what they’re voicing, but giving them a forum to tell you what you need (but might not want) to know. Operating almost exclusively for three+ decades in […]
So Long, 2025
The year 2025 is about to come to an end. Thank goodness, some would say. On the good side, Unemployment stayed relatively stable, and under the level of full employment. The US economy DID add a significant number of jobs in 2025, just not as many as in each of the last couple of years, […]
Some Thoughts for Leaders On the Front Edge of AI
AI is already replacing jobs, and we’re just at the start of powerful tsunami that promises to wipe out countless more. Have you thought about how, down the road, you’ll fill your middle and senior ranking talent with fewer humans in the developmental levels of your organization?
Motivated People Move Faster
Treating people right, to include with high expectations, is still one of the very best things you can do for your organization’s customers, your bottom line, and yes, your employer reputation. The current practice of firing, unfiring, and refiring federal workers in retaliation for political disagreement is a particularly visible example of what NOT to do to motivate workers.
Making AI-Related Downsizing Suck Less
Good advice on dealing with downsizing caused by the growth of AI tools in the workplace.
On AI and Real, Pulsating Humans
The fact that you CAN whack 300 heads via AI doesn’t mean that you SHOULD.
All Cows Will Please Report to the Barn
Recently, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy gave notice that all AMZN corporate staff were to be back in the barn working in January 2025. (Before anyone sends any inflammatory emails, we’ve used the Cows metaphor for better than 25 years and have gone to great lengths to be clear that we are NOT comparing people to […]
It’s STILL Your People, Stupid!
For all the technological advances we’ve employed in the workplace, there’s still one thing that rises to the top of what really makes or breaks us – what is that? It’s your people!
Employee Engagement? Or Employee Entrapment?
Let’s think for a minute about so-called “stay-or-pay” arrangements for employees, where an employee agrees to stay with their employer for a certain period of time, or pay a penalty for early departure. Aside from the legal ramifications, (many courts have said these arrangements are illegal or unenforceable), do we really want people working with […]