Let's talk about pet peeves for a moment. We all have them. I'm not talking about the silly people who sing the wrong lyrics to songs I know by heart, the cr...

"A smooth sea never yielded a skilled sailor" - English Proverb Today I'm sharing one of my all-time favorite quotes. This one has come in handy, on so many ...

About 15 years ago, I started sending out motivational quotes (you guessed it, on Mondays) to my colleagues at AT&T Wireless. What started out as a small, si...

There are not enough likes, retweets, hearts, or thumbs up that can express my appreciation and gratitude to those who have given everything for our country....

This is a post about leaning in. Not the Cheryl Sandberg-type of leaning in or a post about women in leadership positions in the workplace. This is a post ab...

Attached below is the message that General Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered to the Allied troops just before invading Normandy on June 6, 1944. I am eternally ...

The news coming out of Rutgers basketball program this week is a classic example of what we, as HR pros, deal with day in and day out in the corporate trench...

There's no shortage of blog posts, surveys, white papers and articles today talking about Employee Engagement. A quick Google search pulled up 4,640,000 hits...

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.” - Anthony Robbins With every new year there's always a lot of talk about resolution...

Six sentences. That was all it took to make my week. Last week, I received a note, via LinkedIn, from a guy that I worked with several years and two employer...

I'm going to do something a little bit different today and talk about two things that I'm very passionate about - HR (specifically talent management) and foo...

"Sometimes you have to go really high to see how small you are." - Felix Baumgartner Like many of you, I was glued to the live feed and riveted by the record...

Okay, I'll admit it...I'm a sucker for 80's music. I grew up in the 80's and during my formative years I got to experience things like the world premier of M...

So I got your attention with the title of this blog post, eh? A bit dramatic, I know, but really what I'm trying to say is summed up by this great quote below...

We're going to see a lot of pictures of the World Trade Center and images from September 11, 2001 this week. Most of us have these images seared into our min...

"Here is what we're going to do today!" I had lunch this week with an HR friend and that is exactly what the waiter proclaimed as he stepped up to our table...

A Pig and a Chicken are walking down the road. The Chicken says, "Hey Pig, I was thinking we should open a restaurant!". Pig replies, "Hm, maybe, what would w...

Is there a difference between performance and potential? The answer is a resounding yes, particularly when you're talking about talent and employee developme...

"A smooth sea never yielded a skilled sailor." - Unknown This is, without a doubt, one of my all-time, favorite quotes. I got this from a buddy back in colle...

When you look at this picture, I know what you may be thinking - what would compel four seemingly normal people to get THEIR picture taken with this guy flas...