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Layoffs hurt everyone
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter and feature...
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Saving money and morale
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter and feature...
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Strategic restructuring: Are you cutting fat or muscle?
Today’s guest post is by Mark Nyman, a principal of The RBL Group, a strategic HR and leadership systems advisory firm. He is co-author, with four senior partners at RBL, including Dave Ulrich, of “HR...
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Today's bonus tracks: Employee engagement tricks that don't work
“Engagement” is one of the big buzzwords in management right now. How to define it, how to encourage it and how to predict which prospective hires are going to have it in spades. But David Zinger...
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“Up in the Air” and the science of layoffs
Today’s guest post is by Aubrey Daniels, author of “Bringing out the Best in People,” and “OOPS! 13 Management Practices That Waste Time & Money And What To Do Instead.” He blogs on workplace and...
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Severing ties the right way?
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we...
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Meatless Mondays, the garbage challenge and what Americans think of chain...
Every week, Restaurant SmartBrief editors scour the Internet for the breaking news and best-practices stories that restaurant owners and managers need to make their businesses smarter. However, every...
View ArticleWhen betrayal stinks from the head
I have a friend who has a secret for staying young: She makes it her business not to know stuff. In contrast, it’s my job to know stuff and then tell people about it. We stay in cross-country touch via...
View ArticleHow a CEO’s speech can backfire
We were sitting in a large auditorium with the new CEO of our company at the front of the room. Those of us in the audience were the backbone of research and development in the company — the people who...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Good news and bad news. Which first?
As the saying goes, “Timing is everything.” Someone at Microsoft should tell the big boss. It seems to me that Satya Nadella, the new CEO at Microsoft as of February, has been let down by his PR people...
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