This morning while driving I was listening to the radio and the station was taking calls to hear the craziest takes on what people have done to skip work. This "contest" was prompted by a 29 year old employee who works at Blockbuster who stabbed himself in the leg to be able to miss work. One of the callers said that she wanted to miss one day of work so she said that she had to go to a funeral. MORE

''Always Available, Always Broken'' is the name of an article I read recently in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. According to a study of people working in the IT branch throughout Germany, there is a level of stress permeating the entire industry that can negatively impact health and productivity. The expectation that one is available round the clock via several different types of media. Sound familiar? MORE

Eriks note: This is a guest post by Meri Gruber a leading expert on business execution. She blogs on the intersection of innovation and business execution at www.competingonexecution.com CEO’s continue to rate execution excellence as their top challenge. But what does “excellence in execution” actually mean? The CEO wants to turn the wheel and [… MORE

I know I have been silent since long, thanks to hectic travel last week. I was in Helsinki (Finland) again in the past week where I met a few customers. What a learning experience it has been! When you are in a meeting with customer MORE

You know we’re always talking about the execution and that nothing else is more important to drive business results than that. Obviously execution is about getting things done and the question then is rather who is executing? read the result from this survey from our friends at McKinsey & Co. where they found that […]. Uncategorized done execution leadership MORE

My Dad was a blue-collar worker. His favorite job was working on the railroad, but the only job I really remember him having was at an oil refinery in Oklahoma. It was a dangerous, dirty job, but he never complained MORE

For the last two Octobers we have travelled to the HR Technology Conference to see four HR software providers show off their software in the Talent Management Shootout. While the Shootout is a. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. MORE

I dislike most reality TV but I found myself getting sucked into ''I Want to Work For Diddy'' because of its unexpected insight into HR topics. The basic premise is that they pull a bunch of people together who admit they don''t want to do any real work and one token achiever, then give them impossible and annoying tasks to perform as a team. People get voted off until one finally gets to work for Diddy. I was watching this at the gym one day and found myself in complete sympathy with the overbearing team lead, who was also the only one on the team who was capable of getting anything done. MORE