by Caroline | Oct 15, 2014 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, Management, Recruiting, teamwork
It was quite a little hailstorm Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella set off, saying women should not ask for raises, but just let the system reward them when it was time. It got me thinking about the recent meeting I had with a tech entrepreneur hiring his first employees...
by Caroline | Sep 24, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork
She looked like a great fit when they hired her. She had all the skills on the list and her former employer actually gushed over her. But she just…didn’t fit…and it was hard for my client to pinpoint why. Turns out, it was a motivation issue. People are motivated by...
by Caroline | Sep 17, 2014 | Company Culture, Management, Recruiting
Why does your organization exist? Who does it help? How is it likely to change the world? If you can’t answer those questions with something pretty compelling, something a lot more aspirational than “We’re here to make every employee a millionaire,” you’re going to...
by Caroline | Aug 28, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Recruiting, Training
The client on the phone was completely freaked out. She’d gotten a call, she said, from some guy whose son had been looking up product reviews online and ran across a really racy one, filled with sexual innuendo…which was weird because the product he was looking at...
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...
