Archive for May 2013

Career Patience or Success: Our Choice

In the current workforce, Baby Boomers like to preach patience when it comes to talking about career moves and opportunities. These “old school” leaders want employees to soak in their roles before they consider them for the next opportunity. These same leaders like things to be neat and orderly. They like to ensure proper protocols […]

Networking: Givers, Takers, and Matchers

Networking in today’s world may be more important than it has ever been. It’s no longer enough to stay heads down, working in your silo. It’s important that you take a broad perspective and you start building a bigger network. Work no longer gets done in a vacuum. It gets done through a multi-layered and […]

Cultural Rabble Rousers

This week my blog posting is for the rabble rousers, the organizational trouble makers, cultural non-conformists, the workplace absurdists, the status quo contrarians, and those that live and work on the edge. In short, this blog posting is for MY people! This blog posting is about paying respect to those who do not walk a […]

The Merging Of Two Cultures

Like me, you may be surprised at the continued dearth of work that is done on the people side of change when two organizational cultures merge. I am not talking about the research, it is ample. So are the case studies in graduate school classrooms, the Time Warner/AOL merger comes instantly to mind as a […]

Talent Management Lessons From Tim Tebow

Say what you will about Tim Tebow, believe what you want to believe about him because I am not here to sell you on him. I am here to talk about a lesson that became painfully apparent for those watching when he was cut by the New York Jets this off season. It is a […]