Culture
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Ask Aubrey: Unions and Performance Feedback
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I was recently promoted to a supervisory position at a federal agency where it is against the Collective Bargaining Agreement to discuss "performance standards" or "numbers" with employees.…
Did McChrystal Get What he Wanted? I Think So!
When I was in the Army there was a saying about budgets, “Ask for three, expect two and get one.”
I was reminded of this when watching President Obama’s speech at West Point last night. When…
Praising the Boss on Boss’s Day? Not So Fast.
Patricia Bays Haroski who worked for her father in a State Farm Insurance Agency in Deerfield, Ill., registered October 16 as Boss's Day with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 1958. She chose October…
Is Management Broken?
In an article in Fortune Magazine (May 11, 2009) called, How Business Can Stand Tall Again, David Gergen quotes Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic as saying that the cause of today’s economic…
