A Trendy Silicon Valley Buzzword Offers A Valuable Lesson In Effective Communication
Educators, scientists and communicators in any field use analogies to explain complex topics or abstractions. The key is to find unique analogies that will surprise your audience and force them…
Building Up a Google X-Ray Search
As sourcers, there’s a lot we can do that often gets overlooked for the fanciest new tool or data scraping technology. Using the Google X-Ray technique (site:), as Dean Da…
INTERVIEW: Dave Ulrich on How To Win the War for Talent
The term “war for talent” was first used in 2001 in a Harvard Business Press book by the same name. It refers to a competitive landscape in recruiting and retention
Now Calling for Early Boarding for Airline Investments
Is the mythical Concorde super jet that used to cross the Atlantic in half the time back? Find out
5 Questions Millennials And Recent Grads Should Ask Their Employers
New hires and job changers face a variety of decisions when reviewing their benefit packages. Here are 5 important questions that you may want to ask during the job interview…
Servant Leadership Lessons From a 17-Year-Old
I just read a great story about what Servant Leadership looks like. It’s in the new book Stadium Status: Taking Your Business to the Big Time, which is based on…
If Millennials Invented Training, Here’s What It Might Look Like
Imagine if a group of millennials had been given the task of inventing some means of accelerating learning in the organization. What would they create? How much would it look…
4 Steps to Protect Your Company From Employee Theft
Employee fraud is on the rise, reaching virtually epidemic proportions. Earlier this year, a former JPMorgan Chase employee pled guilty to criminal charges of wiring more than $5 million over the course…
At Cisco, We’re Trying to Create Our Own ‘Gig Economy’ for Employees
As consumers, we’ve come to expect that when we want something, we can get it. Whether that’s a taxi, a grocery delivery, or your favorite ice cream delivered to your…
Questions to Ask When You Are Interviewing a Sourcer
Interviewing sourcers is tricky, we’re all people, people. We made great first dates and knew how to engage in easy conversation