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Employers Miss the Mark on Bonuses
For the third straight year, employers do not expect to fully fund their annual employee bonus pools, according to a new survey.
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Lack of Business-Focused Diversity Measurement Can Spell Doom
Recently, I received another one of those calls where a key diversity officer stated their department and all of its employees were eliminated from the organization. The whole function was shifted to one person in human resources who must now handle …
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The Week That Was
Drop some major knowledge while waiting in line at the dance clubs this weekend by reading these top five stories from Talentmgt.com for the week of Aug. 12. 1. Want More Money? So Does Everyone Else: Your pitch cannot be about what is good for HR…
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Pursue Effective Practices, Not Best Practices
Perform a Google search any time of the week on the words “best practices,” and you are likely to get north of 300 million hits. Ever since the adoption and propagation of this term by management consultants, it’s become one of the most popular buzzw…
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Judging One Book’s Cover
Oprah’s in the news this week. An employee who’s probably still kicking herself wouldn’t show her a purse while she was visiting Zurich last month for Tina Turner’s wedding. Apparently she asked to a $38,000 Tom Ford purse and was told no, that sh…
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Breaking the Chain: The Benefits of Flat Leadership
Implementing horizontal leadership doesn’t necessarily mean breaking with hierarchy, but it does require a shift in leaders’ mindsets.
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Women Are Out of Order
Author and self-help guru Iyanla Vanzant is in the news over comments she made in an interview with MadameNoire magazine. Vanzant had the temerity to suggest that women, black women in particular, are “out of order.” One pearl she offers: “There i…
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Relax, Business Doesn’t Always Have to Be Business-Like
I just heard that my favorite editor, Deanna Hartley, is leaving Talent Management magazine for a new job at CareerBuilder, the job search behemoth. Although I have only met her once, I will miss her very much; as an editor she gets my sense of “humo…












