Thoughts on people, teams, organizations, communities, effectiveness and success
Caveat Emptor – something Stephen Colbert translates as tuff tittie – should be the motto for any buyer.
Looks like it should be the same for any job hunter using social media to find their next gig.
While many a job hunter has seen the Craiglist Scam Alert (“affiliate scammers are posting bogus ads promising (nonexistent!) employment, paid research trials, or other compensation, but then notifying repliers that they’ll need to jump through a hoop first.… Read the rest
The lure of “A” players – that “can’t miss” man or woman that so many companies claim to recruit and land – has taken another beating.
It’s not the first time that topgrading and the “A” Player strategy as a hoax has been exposed – and it won’t be its last. Like instant diets and get rich schemes, the attraction of the easy and instant talent fix never ceases to fascinate.… Read the rest
Tech valuations are popping (frothy is the well-used word) in the San Francisco Bay area. And the requirement to have high performing talent to quickly scale and produce a winning product may drive it all.
The scalp price for hiring or retaining top engineers was recently tabbed at $500,000 and the talent acquisition strategies of firms like Facebook includes the purchase of small start-ups only to shut them down and employ the newly acquired talent.… Read the rest
Distraction is the enemy of focus and accomplishment. The important task you set out to nail gets buried under the five to ten minor issues that snaked up during the day and grabbed your time and attention.
As Rodan of Alexandria noted, “It’s not the mountain ahead of you that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.… Read the rest
The world continues to be an interesting place, and Quora – the online question and answer site – is my current favorite place to find interesting things.
From the sincere (“What do you think about startups founded by Japanese college students“) to the ridiculous (“What should we think about Jon Stewart when he called Barack Obama ‘dude’.… Read the rest
McKesson Corporation, where I worked as a senior exec for over a decade, had a habit of the yearly reorganization – usually in March right before the start of the fiscal year on April 1. Reporting relationships changed, some people got shifted, some people got whacked, and business continued along.
Rarely did things in terms of the running the business significantly change.… Read the rest