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Horrible Bosses In The Movie and Real Life

The media hype about the new release in theaters this week kept teasing us that “Horrible Bosses” was going to be a funny adaptation of three guys all trapped in jobs with truly evil bosses. Newspaper coverage promoted it as a good time movie in spite of the fact that in most real life situations people usually don’t plan to kill their bad bosses. Early reviews were good. I saw an interview with Jennifer Anniston… Read More »Horrible Bosses In The Movie and Real Life

How To Become a Lightning Rod Recruiter

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In the politically correct recruiting world, there are three subjects that are unmentionable. To break the taboo can result in replacing cooperation, professional courtesy and friendship with polarized rhetoric, unwavering bias and strife. Of course the forbidden trio of subjects are: religion, politics and the candidate experience. The reason that there is so much disagreement on the subject of the “candidate experience” is that those words mean different things to different people and most who… Read More »How To Become a Lightning Rod Recruiter

Time for a Recruiter Declaration of Interdependence

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.” The Serenity Prayer is the name we give to an untitled prayer attributed to a sermon by Reinhold Niebuhr in 1943. It was distributed by the US Armed Forces and several church organizations at the time giving him widespread notoriety. He was later quoted as saying that it had probably… Read More »Time for a Recruiter Declaration of Interdependence

Lead, Follow or Get Out Of The Way

A memorable piece of my life is still tucked away in Fort Benning, GA. There was a statue in front of Infantry Hall carrying the label “Follow Me” which we lovingly called “Iron Mike” for some reason I never knew. It shows a World War II infantry soldier with an upraised arm motioning for those around him to follow him into battle. His courage and unquestioned leadership is forever frozen in bronze not just as… Read More »Lead, Follow or Get Out Of The Way

Made-up Rules: Mindless or Meaningful

My mother had a set of unwritten rules which my sister and I learned to respect and never question. One such rule was not to slam the screen door. “Tommy, you go outside and come back in again without slamming the door this time!” There was no defense. It made no difference that my father had installed a spring powerful enough to launch that door into space. The ultimate control over the slamming door was the… Read More »Made-up Rules: Mindless or Meaningful