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Employee Appreciation, someday HR will get it right. Truth be typed, it’s unfair to blame Human Resources as it’s a matter of culture. Whether it’s Teachers, Administrative Assistants or so many other under appreciated professions with an honorary month or […]
Taking credit for someone else’s work, taking advantage of one’s position to demand work outside a subordinate’s scope, using one’s position of power and control for unfair advantage – that’s the Game of Business. Is HR is useless, powerless to […]
Everything ends. There’s a time and place for everything, then that changes. The beginning of the end. Again. Creative destruction. Progress. AI and automation taking jobs or closing businesses. Call it what you will, but unless you make a profit […]
When done badly, employee recognition is a thankless and fairly useless HR function. A company can be a good employer, or just try to look like one. Birthdays, holidays, retirements, manufactured “of the Year” employee recognition awards are often the latter. The Thought […]
“Bring me solutions” policies are bad for business and should be retired. It’s unrealistic, manipulative, lazy. Humans have problems. Customers do, companies do, computers do. Employees and stakeholders need proactive leadership, not reactionary order takers. Employees lack authority and resources. Problems […]