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In the last post I stated a case for engaging employees. In a nutshell, competitive advantages for knowledge businesses come from ingenuity which can only be fostered when an employee is engaged.

The first step is making sure we get the right people on the bus. My starting point is to focus on fit. Engagement comes from a number of sources, but how well someone fits into our company is step one and within our control. I… Continue

A century ago we were putting the screws to the Industrial Revolution. We revolutionized the revolution.

Growth and competitive advantages hinged largely on price. Thus the pattern we followed to maintain these was a logical one. We focused on the contributions that effected them and progressed from the easy solutions to the more difficult:

1. Work longer. Practices don’t change, you just do what you do for longer periods for the same pay.
2. Work smarter. A day only has so many hours so we cr… Continue

To quote Dennis Miller, "I don't mean to get off on a rant here, but..."

Enough already about managing the Millenials. The latest was a good blog post about pairing Boomers and Millenials from Towers Perrin but it broke this GenX camel's back and I had to throw my hat into the ring below. Whole post at SwimmingInTheDarkBlue.
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I’ve been reading a lot l… Continue

We want to hire extraordinary people and yet if you removed the names of most companies from the masthead you'd be hard pressed to differentiate one job post from another.

A tale of the tape comparison for identical jobs at two different burger joints. The first is from Burger King, the second from the aforementioned burger slingers in New Zealand called Murder Burger (yep, seriously).

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...We can all assess skills and experience by looking at a resume. And we can typically pick up on intelligence based on pedigree and some brief interviewing. But finding people that actually ‘fit in’ is crucial.

How do we assess that?

In the lazy, bureaucratic mindset we apply to hiring today it comes down to, at best, a ‘behavioral’ interview. But a prepared, outgoing individual can leap this hurdle. At worst we rely on our gut. If we aren’t completely revolted by the way the interviewee car… Continue