Month: February 2013
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Talent Leadership (Book Review)
Talent Leadership book by John Mattone “Talent leadership” seems like the most broad category you can possibly imagine. I couldn’t stop the thought from entering my mind; however, less than ten pages into this book I realized that it was not going to be what I expected. This thing is full of highly detailed, hands-on…
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401k savings plans are (not) for suckers
The other day my buddy Laurie posted about 401k plans being for “suckers.” After reading her comments and those of some of her audience, I felt led to respond. Here’s a snippet: Some HR professionals are horrified by the way you manage your money, but I feel your pain. You can’t squeeze blood out of…
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Just a Quick Note Today
I’ve had a wild ride this weekend. A few weeks ago my sister-in-law passed me the Hunger Games series. I’m a big fiction and science fiction nut, but other things (see below) have kept me busy ever since she passed them over. I started the first book on Saturday and just finished it last night.…
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HR Job Qualifications-Are There Any?
I’m pretty sure that passion isn’t one of the HR job qualifications that people look for, otherwise we wouldn’t have need for the other posts in this series. If you missed them, we talked about: how to get an entry level HR job set up to fail: how we are sabotaging the next generation So…