In recent weeks, several tech companies took the unusual step of speaking very clearly and publicly about internal performance expectations. Intel laid out a plan for its workforce last week. In March, Jack Dorsey did the same at Block. Now, Google is joining in, using an evaluation model that rewards top performers
It’s 2025, and many companies are still hiring on vibes—gut instincts and subjective impressions of job applicants—rather than objective skills assessments. Of all the ways to fill vacant positions, this is probably the worst. But according to a new study by Textio, a Seattle-based maker of recruiting and feedback
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
