Monthly Archives: June 2010

Fire those who need to be fired

Right on the heels of my recent blog post about keeping bad employees too long, an article appeared in the 4Jun10 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education by Michael Munger subtitled, Five Suggestions for New Academic Administrators. In it, … Continue reading

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When to release in-progress plans….?

The way to get buy-in for an idea or plan is to let people get involved in its formation, not by spinning it to them afterward. Continue reading

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Are we too generous in hiring and keeping employees?

A recent article I read about how to hire the right people for the right jobs gives a statistic attributed to the US Department of Labor that 50% of all new employees are gone within the first six months of … Continue reading

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