I have always believed the only way to find peace and happiness is to strike a balance in all the various aspects of your life. You must feed your emotional, physical, spiritual, and intellectual sides every day to remain in balance. When we fail to do that, we slip into a state where any equilibrium [...]
28 Mar
Posted by awebb as Human Resources, Management
The other day I addressed the topic of making sure that when you lose employees you lose them from the bottom and not the top. I ran across the statement I used for the title of this post again today and it reminded me how true it is that we as managers determine who stays [...]
I worked with a company last year that had several problems: they had way too much inventory, they had no systems in place (purchasing systems, inventory control systems, etc.,) and they were in need of some marketing help. Somewhere along the way, the owner finally realized he needed a high-powered marketer. Now, we’re talking about [...]
18 Mar
Posted by awebb as Human Resources, Management, Marketing, Public Relations
Seth Godin has a great post on why you don’t need a resume. The part that really caught my eye was this comment: “Great jobs, world class jobs, jobs people kill for… those jobs don’t get filled by people emailing in resumes. Ever.” I know that’s been the case in my career. When I need [...]
I have to start this post (and I’ll probably end it) by saying that good employees are your most valuable resource. Whatever is next most valuable is so far behind good employees you can hardly see it from here. You’ll notice I said “good” employees. Average and below employees contribute little to moving your business [...]
The lifeboat drill is a great way to evaluate your managers and staff from a whole new paradigm. I especially like it because it not only evaluates the importance of each employee to the company, it ranks them by importance relative to every other employee of the company. Here’s how it works. A luxury cruise [...]
I was reading Seth Godin’s Blog entitled “Ordinary is Cheaper Than You,” where he explains that if companies want employees who are merely “ordinary,” they can out source them from off-shore, have the work done by computers, etc. The gist being if you are ordinary, your job is at risk (and the possibility of finding [...]
I was reading a post on Jay Goltz’s Boss School Blog entitled “Don’t Let the Door Hit You?” about employees who come to you and say they are leaving because they have a better offer somewhere else. The question he poses is this: do you let them go or do you negotiate? I really enjoyed [...]
25 Jan
Posted by awebb as Human Resources, Leadership, Management
That pretty much sums it up. I can’t tell you how many times in my career I’ve had people come to me and say, “Why aren’t I being paid more? I told you two months ago this wasn’t going to work. I’m probably the only one who really knows what’s going on here.” What would [...]
I think most CEO’s are like the one I met a few years back. When I asked several personnel / HR-related questions, it became apparent that the CEO knew almost nothing about that aspect of her company. “I have much more important things to do than worry about that sort of thing,” she stated. It’s [...]