January 6, 2011 · 8:41 am
If you’re like most people you’ve been interviewed for a job at some point. Maybe you’ve even done the interviewing. It’s one of the most important things we do as managers and the ability to do interviews that successfully separate great candidates from merely good candidates is worth a lot to your employer.
I’ve done many interviews over the last 30 years and hired quite a few people. Inevitably I ask them a question which I’ve found very useful in the process and I thought I’d share it with you today. Continue reading →
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Tagged as advice, business, business thinking, Candidate, Employment, Interview, Job interview, life, life lessons, management
January 4, 2011 · 9:53 am
There are a ton of stories this morning about how Bank of America is preparing to be “outed” by Wikileaks. You can run your own search for it or click on this one for an overview. Now, since we don’t do politics here I’m not going to riff on Wikileaks, freedom of the press, BofA, capitalism, or any of the inflammatory stuff that I’m not sure any of us are up for this early in the year. I do, however, have a business thought about this situation and I’d like to share it with you. Continue reading →
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Tagged as advice, Bank of America, Bank of America Home Loans, business, business thinking, Julian Assange, life, life lessons, management, Mortgage loan, New York Times, Reality checks, Wikileaks
January 3, 2011 · 11:02 am
Let’s start the year off with a question I’m sure you’ve heard if you have kids. It goes something like this: Why learn? “Why do I have to learn all this stuff in (math, history, chemistry – pick one) when I’ll never use it anyway?” The easy way out is to remind them that you had to labor through it and it’s the unfortunate lot of children that their play gets interrupted to acquire certain life skills. However, in an age when damn near everything anyone has ever learned is pretty much accessible via a search of some sort, and access to search is immediately available everywhere, why learn indeed? Well, here’s why, and it’s a business lesson as well. Continue reading →
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