“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. Do behaviors matter? It’s an easy question to answer. Too easy. Ask an HR leader if a person’s behaviors are […]
A few years ago the book Fearless HR said that “the HR profession needs to speak with a strong point of view, a new confidence, perhaps even with swagger.” Swagger. It’s a great word, but likely not among the first 20 that you’d use to describe most HR leaders. Ideally it should be First, let’s […]
“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. Intelligence It’s hugely influential to success at work (and in life), yet few HR pros know its definition, where it […]
If you’ve read my thoughts on self-reviews in performance management1 or self-ratings on 360s2, you know that I’m not a fan. I base my opposition on the conclusively proven fact that human beings consistently over-rate themselves. It’s not that we sometime over-rate themselves. The best research on the topic says we almost always over-rate ourselves. It’s […]