by Warren Bobrow | Jul 25, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
I am a regular listener to the podcast of This American Life. Recently, they had a segment on customer satisfaction and L.L. Bean’s extreme version interpreting it (“Our products are guaranteed to give 100% satisfaction in every way. Return anything purchased from us...
by Warren Bobrow | May 10, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Recruitment, Talent Management
To use a tired cliché, they call it Show Business for a reason. Fortunately, within the last 10 years or so, the news media in Los Angeles has been covering that industry as it would any other large one in the region. So, it made a local splash when the Chairman and...
by Warren Bobrow | Apr 27, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Talent Management
Among the incentives employers provide are stock incentive programs. The thinking is simple—if someone is an owner of a company (no matter how small) they’ll act in a way that is more beneficial to the enterprise. With startups, it’s a bit of a gamble (take less...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 8, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Legal Issues, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Talent Management
With great fanfare, Intel announced recently that it is making progress in meeting its diversity goals. I’m not going to pick on their numbers as their current demographics are what they are. There are some good lessons we can learn from how they approached the issue....
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 2, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Recruitment, Talent Management
For the life of me, I cannot understand why some companies go out of their way to treat their employees poorly. It starts innocuously, like putting employees last in a mission statement. Then it morphs into thinking that people are really machinery (scientific...
