When Intel CEO Li-Bu Tan admitted the company erred in rewarding managers for building bloated teams, he sent out a wake-up call not just for Intel, but for every leader focused on the wrong things to measure business success. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan sent all employees a memo Thursday announcing
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One of the things I love about Improv is ridiculous physical comedy. Big hand gestures, ridiculous yoga poses, and eye rolling are designed to be seen by the last row of the audience. It’s amazing. Not every scene lends itself to the dramatic or melodramatic. And that means,
Pope Francis passed away this morning in Rome at 7:35, marking the end of a papacy that influenced far more than just the Catholic Church. In his 12 years as pope, he led with a style that offers enduring leadership lessons for anyone in a position of authority,
James, a deli worker at Meijer, the midwestern supermarket chain, stole a fruit cup and some chicken. Over a few months, that added up to $110 worth of theft—and that’s when a Meijer manager called the police and had him arrested. When you suspect an employee is stealing,
“I’ve never cared what my barista is wearing when she hands me my drink and my breakfast.” “This will make a big difference. A touch of professionalism goes a long way.” These two very different responses span the range of reactions to Starbucks’ announcement that it is updating its dress code for in-store staff. Employees will
One of the nice things about being an adult is we generally don’t need to ask anyone’s permission to go to the bathroom. It’s a basic necessity that we take for granted. A woman recently turned to Reddit’s legal advice subreddit with a disturbing question: Can her employer fire
If you work in compensation planning, you may think, how much damage can one spreadsheet do? In 2012, JP Morgan Chase lost $6 billion–that’s billion with a B–in the “London Whale Disaster. It had a complex model called the Synthetic Credit Portfolio Value at Risk (VaR) Model that was manually
A small electrical contractor that had never had an HR department before hired me as their first HR manager. He says he sincerely appreciates his employees but needs someone to focus on them. My first endeavor is to find out what they are currently happy with working there
When it’s time to trim payroll, a $25,000 payout can feel like a generous, clean exit. That’s one of the things Kristi Noem, head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is offering employees in exchange for their resignations. If you’re thinking of reducing your headcount, you need to know
