When I worked an hourly job, I would always try to calculate how much I’d get in my next paycheck before I received it. It was a nice treat when my shoddy back-of-the-envelope arithmetic failed and my paycheck was larger than expected.
As an employer and the one cutting the checks, you’re responsible…
It may be the early hire you need to stay afloat.
For many, the position of chief-of-staff is associated with politics. Although the position has started to gain traction in large corporate businesses more recently, there’s yet another type of company where a chief-of-staff can have a lasting and meaningful impact: startups…
Stress can pose a bigger problem during the colder months. Here’s what leaders can do to support their teams.
As shorter days and colder temperatures collide with holiday-season strain, pandemic anxiety, and grief, many people are feeling overwhelmed–and more companies are recognizing the need to help employees…
The #MeToo movement is a bitter reminder of the destructive power of sexual harassment in business. Sexual harassment is hard to deflect, hard to report, and hard to address once the damage is done.
That’s why it’s so important to push back hard in your workplace with a zero-tolerance sexual harassment policy and timely training…
Depending on your personality (and HR bandwidth at the time), the recruiting and hiring process may be an exciting project to grow your team — or a draining endeavor of resume reading, interviewing, appraising and repeating ad nauseum.
Either way, the risks are real. Hire someone who’s overqualified…
Ah, the Wild West of entrepreneurship. It’s glamorous. It’s exciting. It’s been written about in books and portrayed on the big screen. There are stories of billionaires getting started by working out of a garage, stories that tempt one to think, “Why can’t that be me?”…
With a large tub of ice cream in my lap, I watched The Avengers a few nights ago (I’m rewatching all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies in release date order.) I nearly dropped my spoon in excitement when I heard Black Widow mention an accounting concept, the one we’re talking about today…