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Hiring: Learning From the Behavior of Crowds

There are no simple ways to determine if you’re hiring the right person for a job and, in my experience, complex approaches to hiring fail almost as frequently as winging it.  OK, that’s a little extreme, but you get my point. Those who have used regimented hiring methodologies created by behavioral scientists and organizational [...]

Hiring and Firing the George Steinbrenner Way

For all sports-o-phobics out there, this is really an article about management . . . it’s likely to be a controversial one at that.

Even as a die-hard Red Sox fan, I can’t deny the fact that the New York Yankees are likely the greatest sports franchise of all time, at least as measured [...]

Recruiting and Hiring – Closing the Deal

One of the companies I work with just fell victim to a recruiting problem that I’ve encountered more times than I want to remember – losing a newly hired employee before their start date.  Most often, this seems to happen out of ignorance, sometimes because of lack of bandwidth and once in a while, [...]