When an organization has a critical decision to make about the direction of the company, all the company’s stakeholders are brought “to the table” for the discussion. This “table” will be surrounded by the leaders or managers of each of the significant areas, including finance, operations, procurement, and sales, among

A decade or so ago, if a person applied for one of your organization’s open position opportunities, they would be just fine not hearing anything from you for two weeks or more. It was completely normal for people to wait days — or even weeks — for any kind of

In the last blog, I detailed my interactions with the great people who ran the conference I was speaking at in San Diego. The most important point of the blog was that NONE of them chose to go to work for that organization because of researching all their options and

Today, I’m on a flight to Greensboro NC after just finishing an event in San Diego. The event was for MHEDA, which is a national association for the manufacturers and suppliers of material handling equipment. They ran a fabulous conference, and before I departed, I had a chance to talk

Welcoming this idea could very well cause overnight improvement in the response you get from posted job ads — the concept of changing lanes. Changing lanes can be defined as communicating in your job ad that you welcome people to apply even though they may have no experience in your