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My friend Leslie called me last week and before I even said hello she blurted out, “I cried in front of a (male) Senior Leader today. Like, really

I am on the verge of rolling off one of the most rewarding projects of my consulting career to date; I actually am sad to be leaving it.

I hear it all the time, "We'd be so screwed if we had a normal HR person. I'm so happy we have you." Not really. You'd just be screwed

I tend to use swear words.  Not all the time – I’m not like some sailor walking around the office dropping ‘F-Bombs’ all the time, but in select

Your organization moves at a certain pace.  Your high potential employees, though, move at a faster pace -- that's probably why you identified them as high potential in

Sequestration, filibuster, campaign finance... Congressional dysfunction isn't just them, it's how *we* manage them! Consider the recruiting pool a member of Congress.  Technically, you only need to be a

After reading my post about happiness at work even if you don't work at Zappos, my friends at OpenView reached out and asked me to weigh-in on their

The next big thing in HR is also the #1 thing HR sucks in.  Whether you're feeling it or not in your organization, hiring is coming back.  That

The most important part of Human Resources isn't talent management or talent acquisition. It doesn't matter if you hire for culture or competency. And nobody cares about your