When I hire people I’m usually paying attention to the time the candidate spent in each job. While I accept the fact that companies and people don’t stay married for 8, 10, 20 years any more as they did when I started my career, it’s still a red flag to me to see someone with 3 jobs in 4 years with 3 different companies. It says as much to me about the company as it does about the candidate. Continue reading
Filed under Consulting, Helpful Hints, Reality checks
We all tend to put things into little niches. It’s probably the only way our minds can keep track of all that is going on around us, and given that all THAT STUFF seems to be multiplying each day, the ability to categorize and file away meta data about people, companies, and other things is, in my opinion, key to being a highly-functional person today. Naturally, I thought about this last night while watching the Grammy awards. Continue reading
Filed under Reality checks, Thinking Aloud, What's Going On
One of the changes in the air these days seems to be that people are taking responsibility for their screw-ups and apologizing. I’m not talking about apologies of the lame “mistakes w
ere made” sort. Nope. These are people who probably don’t have to apologize publicly given their stature but who are doing so very openly and very clearly: Continue reading
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