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At the Golden Globes, Jeff Bridges accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and gave an acceptance speech that made us want whatever he was smoking. — Read on http://www.thecut.com/2019/01/golden-globes-2019-we-want-what-jeff-bridges-was-smoking.html

It’s hard to nail down exactly what it means to “have your shit together,” but you know when you may have met someone who does. These people are functional and competent, but never pretentious or elitist. They make their beds and do their jobs and always seem to be level-headed about all the nonsense theContinue reading “Getting your SH_T together….a pretty good list.”

There is a common perception among management that if you can’t handle the small things, you probably aren’t well suited to handle larger responsibility. — Read on http://www.inc.com/quora/how-you-dress-at-work-is-way-more-important-than-you-think.html

A number of years ago, Jeff Bezos stopped by our office and spent about 90 minutes with us talking product strategy. Before he left, he spent about 45 minutes taking general Q&A from everyone at the… — Read on m.signalvnoise.com/some-advice-from-jeff-bezos-4ee95086c76b

The Case for Prioritizing Talent Leadership in High-Growth Companies Ask any CEO, and they’ll say their most critical responsibility is ensuring they have the right people in the business. Yet, when reviewing the “Our Team” section of many early-stage or high-growth technology companies, it’s rare to find a Chief People Officer, Chief Talent Officer, orContinue reading “How important is Talent to the Founder/CEO?”

Getting Human Resources Right The news out of Uber last weekend was horrifying. A woman engineer was unable to get human resources to deal quickly and appropriately with a sexual harassment claim. I don’t know anything more than what I learned in her blog post. Uber is investigating and the full story will likely emergeContinue reading “Thank you Fred Wilson – and we have been saying this for years….”

  This is just a niggle but I think we hear that “hiring is the worst part of my job” far too often. If anyone in your organization feels this way, you might take a look at deeper seeded issues. Hiring is one of the most important responsibilities that any employee and certainly any leaderContinue reading “Recruiting should not be a “chore” – because it is a responsibility !”

What a Top FBI Profiler says About Extreme Narcissists Like Donald Trump This is more relevant by the day: Joe Navarro was one of the FBI’s top profilers, a founding member of their elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, and author of several books on human behavior, including Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to IdentifyContinue reading “The NPO in your professional life. Do you for someone who like Donald Trump ?”

  Not quite. HR’s role is changing, as a growing number of companies give more power to individual team leaders to evaluate and guide their direct reports. When Deloitte revealed recently that it was redesigning its approach to performance management—hoping to fix a process that chews up nearly 2 million hours a year but yieldsContinue reading “HR going the way of the DoDO ?”

Your Fired !  Aver Inc. Names Nick Augustinos, Veteran Healthcare Executive, as New President and CEO COLUMBUS, OH–(Marketwired – December 15, 2015) – Aver Inc., leader in the healthcare bundled payment space and provider of a patented data management platform that simplifies the healthcare reimbursement process, has appointed Nick Augustinos as President and Chief ExecutiveContinue reading “Sometimes founders have to go ! “