I'm going to the Electronic Recruiting Exchange Conference this week. It's a recruiting industry conference with a trade show floor for vendors and programmed sessions for practitioners. I always have fun at these conferences if for no reason other than...

Christien Louviere blogs here about the generation of Americans that require "praise inflation" in order to function in the workplace. We all know I don't have kids, right? So let me talk about this as a friend of people who have kids, as a people manager...

You think you have it bad? Check these guys out . I bet we all have our stories. I remember when I worked in the agency world and we were required to wear suits (as in the top and bottom came on the same hanger). When the boss came in in jeans, she...

At Netflix, you can . The key is creating performance-based assessments. Same reason why my team virtually works from home. Last week I was out on a short bereavement leave and it was such a comfort not having to worry too much about what was going...

Please tell me it is not . So long and so wrong. Those crazy auditors at E&Y know how to break it down. Thanks Ben ....kind of.

Man, I need to get a new picture on my blog...even I don't think I look like the same person as that brunette up there (I tend to avoid cameras as a general rule which is why this is somewhat of a revelation). That's my friend and co-worker Julie, who...

I know that there's all kinds of Earth Day stuff going on. It borders on the Hallmark holiday...we can all return to our bad behavior when it's over, so it seems. One thing I should tell you is that I have pretty intense recycling guilt. I recycle my...

all six years of it. Watch the whole thing. Thanks Tim .

How cool is it to have a linguist analyze your blog posts? I knew all that stuff before I posted that blog entry...yeah, right.