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What if HR Managers Were Major League Baseball HR Managers?
Ah, it’s April! Spring is in the air!!! The sun is shining, flowers are blooming, and I have to actually start mowing my lawn again. But, it’s also time for… Get the Rest
Do You Have a Jeremy Lin Hiding Out In Your Organization?
What a month it's been for Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks. If you're even a casual basketball observer, you know that he's gone from being undrafted
Do you really need superstar talent?
Attracting top talent, the ‘War for Talent’, engaging talent, myriad HR Technology vendors hoping to sell you solutions for Integrated Talent Management, even this site, with its name
Tony La Russa: Performance Focused or Really Big Jerk?
Growing up, my mom took me to Cardinal baseball games every year, even though she didn’t really like baseball. She let me ask 100 questions, listened to me
Are You Capturing the Bulldog Spirit in Your Organization?
The side of Reliant Stadium in Houston reads, "The Road Ends Here" as the city hosted the Final Four this past weekend. As an avid college basketball fan
Just like NCAA Basketball, Corporate Recruiting is a Team Sport…
I don't watch the NBA anymore (don't tell my FOT basketball obsessed colleagues). But, I absolutely love March Madness. (Go Zags! Well... maybe next year.) Sure, they don't
Big Tickets and High Stakes…
So you have to pull the trigger on the big hire. The kind of C-level, (or close), critical, visible, and organization-shaping call that can make or break your
Superbowl Postmortem: What Would You Do About Jerry Jones’ Performance Challenges?
Articles about the Super Bowl have filled the blogosphere over the last week or so. And while evaluating Fergie’s screeching performance is certainly entertaining, let's instead evaluate Dallas
If You Are Going to Use What’s Out There as an Excuse, Just Stay on the Bus
Today’s post might sound like a sports post, but I promise it’s not. It’s actually about excuse-makers and blamers, and to make my point, you get treated to
HR Plays Too Much Defense…
Since @timsackett and @steveboese and @kris_dunn use sports analogies to talk HR, I thought I'd try to slide in and sit at the cool kids' table with my


























