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Human Resources

How to Get a Great Start: “Back to School”

September 2, 2010

The art of the good, strong start is something that many of us should master, but few of us seldom do. Why? Probably because it’s a little like that set of occasions (weddings, funerals, baptisms and bar/bas mitzvahs etc.) that happen enough to notice but seldom enough to avoid generating a best practice mindset. Many [...]

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[Life Back West] August 2010 – “Great Expectations”

August 26, 2010

When you love your child as much as I do my 8 year-old son Traylor, serious discipline seldom seems simple or easy. But when you start from a point of promise, it also helps to start with the values to support and nurture those hopes. The failure to follow our family’s values got my son [...]

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Can Good Guys Finish First?

August 5, 2010

You work hard, try to do the right thing, and frequently put the interests of others ahead of your own. You’re a good guy. But does that mean you’ll be a success? “Nice guys finish last” is an adage we all know, and it suggests that not only do nice people do poorly in the [...]

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The Problem with Assholes – and Why They Won’t Go Away

July 6, 2010

Stanford University professor Bob Sutton, whose work I admire, authored the book “The No Assholes Rule.“ Good book, great topic, and some wonderful thoughts about how to work with and / or avoid workplace assholes. Unfortunately the “rule” doesn’t work in most firms. And even while asshole behavior is corrosive and cancerous to the effectiveness of [...]

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Start-Up Tips for Great Company Builders: When Culture Goes Bad – Google Sued for Age Discrimination

May 30, 2010

Culture is the glue that holds organizations together. But make culture exclusionary, and it becomes a force that suffocates talent, and eventually business achievement. [Updated: See the New York Times Corner Office interview from May 30th: For the Chief of Saks, It's Culture that Drive Results] Not only is culture everywhere, it’s notable. Thick cultures [...]

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The Psychic Blogger: Pfizer to Pay Academics to Find Uses for Molecules

May 25, 2010

The headline for the story in the Wall Street Journal by Jonathan Rockoff said it all: Pfizer to Pay Academics to Find Uses for Molecules. Rather than have their own researchers take a crack at it, Pfizer is spending $22.5M to have researchers at the medical school at Washington University in St. Louis review approximately [...]

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