Structural Failures within Organizations – Close is Not Good Enough

By Michelle Malay Carter on June 17, 2008 

Steve Roesler throws out the concept of applied management in his latest post?on employee survey research.? I couldn’t agree more that we need more applied management within organizations. And I would ask, just what are we applying? Is Close Good Enough? Engineers take natural laws and science-based knowledge and use this inform to inform their […]

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Insightory – A Management Information Repository

By Michelle Malay Carter on May 27, 2008 

If you haven’t stumbled upon it yet, you should check out Insightory. It’s a platform for management professionals, academicians and graduate business students to share their knowledge and insights with the corporate world, solve management issues collaboratively, and network with peers who have similar professional interests. Their goal is to do for management knowledge what […]

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Hiring Advice for Seth Godin – Beware of Six Month Syndrome

By Michelle Malay Carter on May 8, 2008 

Working Interviews Kris Dunn at HR Capitalist resurfaced an idea put forth by Seth Godin a while back – when interviewing a candidate, rather than chatting, you should make them work. Copywriters should copywrite. Widget designers should design widgets. A Good Idea – With a Caveat, Hirer Beware I have no problem with this, and […]

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Hiring Star Performers Can Be a Mistake – The Dangers of Overhiring

By Michelle Malay Carter on May 7, 2008 

With all the buzz about hiring the best and the brightest, few people talk about the downside of overhiring. Overhiring Trumps Underhiring Our data shows one in five people is in a role that does not tap their full capacity, i.e. they’ve been overhired in a role. In contrast, only 15% are slotted in roles […]

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A Daily Prescription for Attitude Problems – A Friday Funny

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 24, 2008 

If your micro-manager suddenly volunteers to bring you coffee in the morning, you might want to check the bottom of the cup for sarcasma residue. Like the can’t-sit-still children waiting for their ritalin outside the school nurse’s door, can’t you see the unruly corporate under-employed being lined up to have their daily sarcasma pill administered […]

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