by trans-admin | Feb 24, 2016 | Strategies
In a recent Inc Magazine article, Kate Rockwood describes several companies and their efforts to find a good culture fit when hiring. Some of those companies attempted to find a culture fit by identifying similar hobbies, education, and other shared background data....
by trans-admin | Feb 7, 2016 | Strategies
Pay Attention Shelly’s mother was in the hospital, in a rapid decline. Then she was moved to hospice, and a few weeks later she died. The company president, Lewis, in an attempt to offer some acknowledgment or words of consolation, said, “It must be hard to have your...
by trans-admin | Jan 31, 2016 | Careers
Keith was an engineer who enjoyed his role and his autonomy. His boss Eric was also an engineer, but in a different specialty. He gave Keith a lot of freedom to problem solve and create according to his own skills and expertise. This worked well most of the time....
by trans-admin | Jan 16, 2016 | Careers
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, being brutally critical with colleagues is actually an act of kindness – and more productive than being polite. The piece profiled companies adopting this much-touted communication style that, of course, isn’t without...
by trans-admin | Dec 20, 2015 | Leadership & Management
Toxic employees received some attention lately in the Harvard Business Review report by Dylan Minor. There were some unsurprising conclusions: toxic employees are expensive. But also some curious, paradoxical results in their report: toxic employees can seem to be...
