Somehow our society seems to have lapsed into a culture of mediocrity. It seems that in everything we do standards of “minimum performance†tell us how far we have to go until we arrive at comfortable complacency. I’m told that this is negative thinking on my part and that it is typical of boomer mentality to think that excellence should be the goal of everybody. If that is true, so be it. I will wear… Read More »About Plodders and Heroes
There is nowhere a more emphatic symbol of a corporate policy than the three-ton rock at the entrance to each Stew Leonard’s store in Connecticut and New York. On it is inscribed: “Rule 1: The customer is always right. Rule 2: If the customer is ever wrong, reread rule 1.†This company has been listed in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not as the world’s largest dairy store and chosen by Fortune to be one of… Read More »Give Candidates Better Experience, Not Bill of Rights
Who are stakeholders? And what is this stake they are holding? This one of the words we learn in grade school English as a homonym (or homophone) which is, as our dictionaries define it, “one of a group of words pronounced in the same way but differing in meaning or spelling or both.” This one also happens to be a word in which the same spelling can have multiple meanings, making it also a homograph.… Read More »Recruiting Management And Key Stakeholders
There is an often quoted saying that wisdom comes from the mouth of babes. Children don’t have a trained filtering mechanism in place and their wise sayings are sometimes the revelation of truths that grown-ups don’t see or don’t want to see. They also have the beginnings of a mechanism to reorganize the truths into something more understandable to their level of development which may be totally distorted. My son went to a nursery school… Read More »The Job Seeker’s Guide To The Galaxy And Other Places
Congratulations on surviving the interview. Unless yours is one of the rare cases where everything falls into place on the first try, this wasn’t your first interview and it may not be your last. Hopefully, thinking like a recruiter gave you an edge over those who remained in the rut of thinking only about their own agenda regardless of the consequences. But now you are faced with the age old question about how to build… Read More »Job Seekers: Think Like a Recruiter – Part 10