by Caroline | Aug 13, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, People Evaluation, teamwork, Training
Anyone who works in your organization has to hand over a lot of pretty sensitive, private information: Their social security numbers, their health information, their job history. They’re trusting that whoever has access to that information is going to handle it...
by Caroline | Aug 6, 2014 | Company Culture, Management, teamwork, Training
We’ve all heard the expression of someone being “promoted to the level of his incompetence.” It’s a truism that lots of employees find very frustrating. But most companies have no idea how very, very expensive it can be to promote someone over other people without...
by Caroline | Jul 30, 2014 | Telecommuting, company culture, management
So here’s a scary statistic: For small businesses with fewer than 100 employees, the average damage from employee fraud tallies up to $200,000. The numbers are actually lower for large businesses…why? Because large businesses put systems in place to prevent fraud or...
by Caroline | Jul 23, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Recruiting, teamwork
Many of our clients are startups so I really appreciate the concept of disruptive companies and Zappos is about as disruptive as they get. I mean, when you think about it, they sell shoes—so it’s not like they invented the consumer jet pack (when is that coming out by...
by Caroline | Jul 16, 2014 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, Management, People Evaluation, Recruiting
There was the case in which Silicon Valley’s CEOs conspired to keep pay artificially low for the area’s engineers, so the companies wouldn’t have to deal with supply and demand—basic tenets of a free economic system. Then there was the fact that GM and the National...
