When you head into any job interview, you want to make a good impression. In the past, you could pick up on a lot of information in the physical environment where the interview was taking place, as well as the body language of the interviewer. But duri…
Collective grievances for Zoom happy hours and subpar home offices have taken a backseat as our at-home work lives shifted from temporary to seemingly permanent routines. While the first six months of our “new normal” brought coworkers to…
A funny thing about providing feedback—once you start providing your thoughts to others, you will begin receiving their thoughts on you. It’s a natural human reaction that when you suggest someone can do something better, they will have s…
Early this year, I accepted the role of chief marketing officer at the content platform software maker Contentful. The company was on a fast growth trajectory fueled by a strong economy. But by the time I started, we were in the midst of a global pande…
In the midst of the chaos of the last presidential debate was an exchange that’s worth revisiting. President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden spoke about the Trump administration’s policy to limit the use of some kinds of …
Over the past several months, the conspiracy theory known as QAnon, which posits that politicians and A-list celebrities are engaging in child abuse and a “deep state” effort to undermine President Trump, has gone from being a curiosity t…
It costs about $4,425 to recruit and hire an employee and more than three times that if they’re an executive. You don’t want to make a mistake, especially hiring an employee that disrupts the workplace. When you avoid hiring a toxic emplo…
America’s current race consciousness is at new heights, going well beyond the public policy and political sphere and into the workplace. While the labor market is in a pandemic-created low point, HR departments and leaders across the country hav…
One of the business pivots I have always admired was the story at Intel. Founded 1968, the company’s first hit product was actually in memory chips, or RAM. Their 1103 chip was the best-selling memory chip in the world in 1972, and Intel dominat…
Q. A seasoned investor is upset about the diversity and inclusion program we just announced and says we should focus on returns. I see merit in the policy and want to continue, but don’t know how to proceed and not antagonize him.
—Found…
