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Trust & Respect

It’s been a while – a long while – since I regularly updated this blog.  I’m going to try and pick up where I left off and start posting every couple of weeks again.  Today, I’d like to have a discussion on trust. How important is trust?  In my lengthy tenure at my current company, […]

Positive Lessons

Last week I mentioned some of the characteristics of a poor manager. This week I wanted to focus on the positive and examine some of the lessons I’ve learned from good managers. Over the years I’ve had a lot of managers. When working for large corporations, there are always periods of flux where things change […]

Loyalty

A corporate HR department is not designed to protect the employee. The purpose of HR is to protect the company from the employees, to reduce the risk of legal action from employees. It’s been my experience at every company I’ve worked for that HR is never really focused on employee welfare. Likewise, employees no longer […]

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