Author Archives: corporatedyak

Do yourself and your career a big favor.  Avoid working for a company with a narcissist at the top.  Why you ask ? because these types tend to overspend on investments, deliver substandard results, are pathological and will turn to suit their own agenda. Trust me – narcissist leaders talk a good game but WILLContinue reading “Can you hit the ” I believe ” button ?”

People don’t leave bad companies. They leave bad bosses. They don’t leave flawed organizational structures and abandon lousy products and technology. They leave flawed leadership. No matter how brilliant a company’s products and/or services may be, if management is dysfunctional, that company will inevitabley have problems. It may not be right away – or asContinue reading “More on Micro-Management”

  Its just this easy ! 1. Communication: A great boss is a communicator who has the ability to relate deeply to others, someone who is able to empathize and recognize the talents in their employees and peers. They have strong emotional intelligence and self-awareness, and speak and act with integrity 2. Delegation: Great leadersContinue reading “What Makes a Great Boss?”

  Let us now examine the reasons why candidates should never accept a counter-offer, after they have already accepted OUR offer. 1: You have now made your employer aware that you are unhappy and moving forward your commitment will always be in question. You’ve made your current employer aware of your intention to leave. YourContinue reading “Re; counteroffers – the following hold up.”

Recruitment – which, if you are living in the modern corporate world, is now widely referred to as Talent Acquisition – continues to evolve enough so that we recruiters have become our own organization and not just part of the HR group anymore. Lets face it. Right behind sales, in a close second, recruiting isContinue reading “Recruiting is not just the ” HR guy ” anymore – Its Talent Acquisition of course !”

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” ― Theodore Roosevelt   It’s time to just grow up and be a LEADER! Of course you can’t always have the right answers. ThereContinue reading “Be a Leader !”

I know it’s hip to be counter-intuitive, contrarian, and a little ironic these days. I mean, I love “Portlandia” as much as you do. If you don’t, then can we at least agree on The Colbert Report or Jon Stewart… right? Irony and counter-intuitiveness has even made its way to Linkedin, which recently reposted anContinue reading “First Impressions are not Everything! (and other counterintuitive myths)”