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Hiring: The Next Big Sports Business Hurdle

I’ve covered a lot of ground on the need for better marketing and smarter selling and improved branding in sports and entertainment business lately. But I have failed to really cover the likely starting point for a lot of these challenges: hiring. Sports seems to have an especially high turnover rate and it isn’t […]

Talent Doesn’t Move In A Straight Line

There are any number of reasons that companies continue to lose out on really great employees, but one thing that still bugs me when I talk to HR people, executives, and others is when you miss out on someone because they aren’t following the dots of what someone should have done. Talent will look for […]

1 Simple Way To Strengthen Your Relationship With Your Employees

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Hiring For Culture

I just wrote a little recently about hiring for organizational fit… And as I think about it, I am concerned that this drive to hire for culture is just another way of ducking responsibility. I don’t think we ever hire for culture first. We are really always hiring for performance…the thing is, we may just […]

Are You Hiring For The Right Things…?

As a boss, manager, owner, HR person, etc… When you write your job descriptions, are you creating job postings that look like lists of things you might find on a syllabus? Or are you creating a document that invigorates the talent you are hoping to attract? In other words, are you measuring inputs or outputs?