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The Monday Minute (Or Two)

Our founder and leader, Alan Schnur, has things to say. And he’s focused on a particular four-letter word….W-O-R-K. Check out Alan’s unique perspective in an informal and insightful conversation about the workplace and the society in which we live.

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Enough With the Lists Already

Posted on May 13, 2012

Reader beware: It’s rant week. Those damn lists. Have you had it about up to here with all of the seemingly millions of business- and lifestyle-related lists that seem to be everywhere? One can’t seem to get through Fortune, Forbes, Yahoo! or Entertainment Weekly these days without a barrage of dos and don’ts lists. Ten […]

Attraction

Posted on May 07, 2012

Thanks to the many of you who took the time to answer the two questions we posed last week. If you recall (and who can, given that it was an entire week ago?), we asked: All things equal (i.e., job, pay, benefits, commute, physical work space), what would attract you to an employer? And, All […]

Choices

Posted on April 29, 2012

Imagine having 3 job offers. (No, this is not an exercise in fantasy. In the not-so-distant past, we’re talking the late 90s and earlier this century, multiple job offers were a regularly occurrence. Remember?) The offers are identical in nearly every way. The job is the same. The money — both base pay and bonus […]

The Season of Deliberate Acts of Kindness

Posted on April 22, 2012

Welcome to our favorite time of year: The 2012 Season of Deliberate Acts of Kindness. What, you haven’t heard of The Season of Deliberate Acts of Kindness (or, for us professionals, simply The Season)? Say it ain’t so! How could this possibly be? Have you been living under a rock for the last six months? […]