One of the biggest changes I experienced when I became a consultant involved meetings. Working in corporate, I attended a lot of meetings – many …
Leadership and Management
These posts focus on workplace leadership and management as part of an overall business strategy.
Whatever Happened to Transparency
You remember transparency, don’t you? Sure you do! Everyone was talking about it several months ago. It came right along with being on social media …
The Business Case for Managing Ourselves
The Harvard Business Review published a post by Vineet Nayar on Who is the New CEO? The article is a well-thought out vision that, in …
Going to Abilene – Tips on Consensus Building
One of my favorite business stories is the book, The Abilene Paradox. I had the pleasure of hearing author Jerry B. Harvey tell the story …
Opportunity, Empowerment and Communism
I read a post over at Social Media Today about the “Opportunity Economy.” It’s a terrific post and raised some real interesting thoughts about marketing …
The Fine Line Between Cliques and Teams
Franny Oxford over at Do the Work blog wrote a post a while back about SHRM (aka the Society for Human Resource Management). While her …
Do You Work In The Gray Zone
One of the absolutely fabulous readers here at HR Bartender sent me this question. It was a question asked of her during a job interview …