How to Hire Honest People
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Bruce Weinstein for The Compliance & Ethics Blog
My father once bought a life insurance policy from an agent who was a really likeable guy. Warm, friendly, and a good listener, Eric was just the kind of person you wanted on your team. His impeccable credentials, strong references, and a professional demeanor made him an understandable choice to handle such an important part of my father’s financial portfolio.He also turned out to be a crook.Read more |
One Great Culture Serves Three Generations
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Kim Peters and Sarah Lewis-Kulin for Great Place to Work:
Who says Millennials have no loyalty? Or that Gen Xers are deeply cynical?
We just produced lists of the Best Workplaces for Millennials, Gen X and Baby Boomers in partnership with Fortune. And our research, which involved surveying more than 230,000 employees at about 620 organizations, challenges stereotypes about these generations. Read more |
Choosing the Right Communication Channel
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Iliyana Hadjistoyanova for CEB:
Habits are one of the most powerful forces in society. Once people get stuck into a groove, it can determine their behavior for years to come and can make a big difference to their life – positive or negative. As Charles Duhigg points out, businesses have made and lost millions based on this observation. Read more |
How to Work with Unconscious Bias In Your Organziation
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Christine Comaford contributing to Forbes:
One of the key topics I’m asked about these days is unconscious bias training. More and more studies come in every day that show diverse and inclusive teams (more on what that means later) consistently outperform teams made up of people who are very similar to each other. So it’s time to bust unconscious biases in business. Read more |
To Hold Someone Accountable, First define What Accountable Means
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Bob Frisch and Cary Green for Harvard Business Review:
At the end of a meeting, most leaders know that they should recap next steps and determine who is accountable for each. As prescribed in the commonly used responsibility models — RACI, RAPID, and the others — accountability should fall to one (and only one) person per item, even if the work involved requires input and contributions from others. Unfortunately, over the years we’ve spent advising organizations, we’ve found that the word “accountable” can mean different things to different people. Read more |
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