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On the Recruiting Animal show last week, Animal teed up the topic of counter offers. He read a quote from an article that said “accepting a counter offer is committing career suicide.” This essentially means that if you accept a counter that no one will ever want to recruit you again. In the discussion that [...]
There has a lot been said about the Human Resources function. About the administrative and compliance mentality that creates the stigma of being the “corporate police.” About how we will forever be striving to be viewed as a strategic partner in the business. You wonder why anyone would enter the field. But having started my [...]
Finally someone is thinking about the job seeker side of the equation. Today Chris Forman and Tim McKegney will be launching Startwire, a next generation application that makes the candidate’s life a little easier.
A few months ago I wrote about learning from other people’s mistakes. I shared a story about working for an idiot, I called him Norm. While Norm was mostly an idiot, he would occasionally spew some words of wisdom. He had so many “sayings,” he was like a walking catch phrase dispenser. Fore example; when justifying [...]
This is the second post in the blog series: From the Mind of a Millennial. This one was written by my 20 year old daughter Kelley. She is a Junior at Clemson University. “So, what do you want to be when you grow up?” People have asked me some form of that question no less than [...]
About 12 years ago I ventured into the land of the self-employed. As daunting as it may sound, the market was so hot at the time the risk was low. If it did not work out, there were plenty of jobs to be had. One of the most liberating feelings in the world was to [...]
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Great Books
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford
The Art of War: With Commentaries by James Clavell by Sun Tzu, Sun Zi, James Clavell(Editor), James Clavell(Editor), James Clavell(Commentaries by)
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss, Ray Porter(Read by)
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H. W. Brands
