Category Archives: management issues
How do You Know You’ve Chosen the Right Employers?
Knowing whether you’ve chose the right employer can be difficult. That’s why you need to consider a lot of different things when it comes to choosing the right company. Consider these points, and use them to help you make the … Continue reading
Hiring The Right Employee: The Right Process
You’ve heard it a million times before, it’s the people that make the job, not the role itself. But is this really the case? From that point of view, that would mean that the role is completely irrelevant to the … Continue reading
Working from Home: Seven Companies to Consider
“With an economy based on knowledge workers, estimates suggest that a full 50% of professionals in the United States have jobs that can be performed from home.” Continue reading
How do you quit? What about an interpretive dance video?
In the meantime, I’d say resist the urge to tell your boss what you really think when you leave a place. It could come back to haunt you, as I detail in my book. Continue reading
Millennials and job churn, when will employers get it?
It would be nice to see the negotiation pendulum swing back to workers sometime soon, it’s been on employers’ side ever since Ronald Reagan busted the air traffic controllers union in the 1980s. Continue reading
10 things to avoid doing, or being, at work
Listening is as important as speaking well in an interview or any work setting. Continue reading
10 Don’ts That Will Help You Avoid Workplace Dysfunction
Great piece from a colleague’s blog. John 10 Don’ts That Will Help You Avoid Workplace Dysfunction.
Telecommuting or a nap at work, which would you pick?
I worked from home, telecommuting, for six and a half years and found it the most productive job I’ve had in a long, long time. Continue reading
ABJH Excerpt: The Early-Career Crisis
I could have been there when the Wall tumbled and Germany was reunited, an amazing story for anyone who grew up in the Cold War years, as I did.
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ABJH Excerpt: Learning on the Job
Looking back all these years later, I’m struck by the hubris with which I took my first management job. I really did think I knew it all and started out with that attitude, alienating people who’d been at their jobs there for decades by the time I’d arrived. Continue reading



