More than a living

Turnover blows. Here is how you can prevent the pain - forever:

Hire incompetent people - no one else ever will. They will be yours to keep until the day they retire.
Promote people beyond their abilities.
Always eliminate training first in budget cuts. Training only enhances peoples’ self worth and sense of mobility.
Describe your micro-management practices in […]

According to the Houston Chronicle–or as the hip kids like to call it “The Chron”–half of your stellar employees may be looking for a new gig.
No. I’m serious.
Forty-seven percent of your most productive, most creative, most valuable workers are mailing out resumes, going on job interviews, even contemplating other offers.
I know. Take a second to […]

From Boing Boing, a piece on Bank of America’s treatment of a customer who was trying to do something right. It’s resulting in a great deal of backlash. To the tune of $50 million withdrawn from accounts (so far).
The summary and a link to the story can be found here, Boing Boing: Bank of America […]

Dumb Little Man isn’t so dumb. Take a look at the 50+ Ways a Manager can get Employees to Quit. Other than likely having a few more to add to the list, my only change would be the title of the post.
You see, in my mind, this is a list of more than 50 ways […]

ChangeThis. Always a good source for inspiring manifestos. Manifesti? Manifesta?
Anyway, for you managers looking to make a real difference, why not try leading by actually, well, leading?
How far are you willing to go to facilitate change in your organization? Management expert, David Maister, says you’ve got to be willing to go first. And […]

Labor revolution has taken us from transformational to transactional and now to tacit work. Personal brands matter most when what you buy is intellectual property. You aren’t going to make your name based solely on the hours you work, or the volume of paper you shuffle in a day. You need to strut your hard-won […]

Great snippet from Pig Wisdom this morning:
“Managers help organizations grow one person at a time.”
Read more at Are Management and Leadership the Same?