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I have two teenagers who live in my house - which means I've paid for admission to the movie The Hunger Games roughly 37 times to date.  If

Been doing a lot of performance work for some client companies lately.  As you might expect, I'm trying to push the companies to get out of the mindset

Mad Men Season 5 started this past week. Full disclosure, before this past week’s episode, I’ve watched a total of 6 minutes of Mad Men.  But the hype was

If you've been in HR for at least 30 minutes you've heard someone in your organization bitch about a bonus.  It comes part and parcel with the gig

Sometimes it’s the little things that matter. You do something you think is a toss-out, nothing big, nothing important.  But ya know what?  Even the very, very little things

I think the world is broken into two types of people: 1. People who do things the hard way. 2. People who let other people do things the hard way. I'm

In one of Steven's comedic bits he names his dog Stay.  Say “come here Stay” a few times out loud. Funny huh?  That bit is at the 1:40

It's the end of the year, which means it's time for performance reviews, which also means it's time for the annual onslaught of calls to eliminate the performance

We’ve all been beat over the head for the last 18 months or so with the idea that incentives don’t work.  We’ve watched Wall Street bonuses become the