by Caroline | Mar 4, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
It doesn’t take long as a business owner or manager to figure out why they say it’s lonely at the top. The downside of all that autonomy and the fancy office and the big bucks (proverbially speaking) is that you have to think a lot harder about how you interact with...
by Caroline | Feb 25, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, People Evaluation, Recruiting
People put it different ways: If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. A players hire A players and B players hire C players. Hire people who know more than you and get out of their way. The point is, the rule of thumb when it comes to...
by Caroline | Feb 18, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Non profit HR, teamwork
We all know what it’s like to be in a group of people you don’t trust. You spend a lot of time watching your words, making sure you don’t reveal anything vulnerable, measuring what can be used against you or twisted into something else. If you’re in an organization...
by Caroline | Feb 11, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, teamwork
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we always pay homage to the fact that—in a lot of ways—an employment relationship is like a romantic relationship. Recruiting is like dating. The first 90 days are like the first few glorious months of the relationship. And then comes the...
by Caroline | Feb 4, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
So here in Austin it seems it’s a part of the community culture for folks to complain about how much better things used to be before the city grew so much. How there used to be no traffic and there were all these other great eateries and Willy Nelson or Stevie...
by Caroline | Jan 21, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, HRSafety, Management, teamwork
2014 was a bad year for ice in Austin. On January 28 there were 270 crashes between midnight and 6 a.m. And even though, as I write this, the weather’s lovely in Austin (except for all the insidious Cedar pollen), Dallas is being hit with what seems like constant mini...
