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Spontaneous combustion of rancid management
01 November 09 07:00 AM | ericbrec | 3 Comments   

What's good for you isn't always good for your group. Obvious, right? You can call it local versus global optimization. You can get geek philosophical about it and say, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few…or the one." Or you can simply Read More...

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Hire's remorse
01 October 09 07:00 AM | ericbrec | 0 Comments   

Looking for that perfect candidate to fill a role? Good, that means you'll never steal a great candidate away from me. I love it when industrial-strength stupidity renders my competition comatose. You can't hire the perfect candidate, but please keep Read More...

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I hardly recognize you
01 June 09 07:00 AM | ericbrec | 6 Comments   

The annual engineering awards are being given out this week at the Microsoft Engineering Forum. Annual reviews will soon follow. These are great opportunities to recognize impactful work. It's too bad most managers are tragically ignorant of how to recognize Read More...

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Things have got to change: Change management
01 March 08 10:13 AM | ericbrec | 5 Comments   

It's the political season in the United States, making "change" a happy word around here. Politicians fight over who better represents change. They proclaim themselves to be agents of change. Hysterical admirers jump up and down waving "Change" signs. Read More...

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September 1, 2005: “Go with the flow—Retention and turnover”
01 September 05 12:45 AM | ericbrec | 1 Comments   

I. M. Wright's "Hard Code" book excerpt Review season is here. As entertaining as that can be for managers and employees alike, it’s just a primer for what follows: musical product groups. The music starts when review numbers are released. A whole bunch Read More...

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