Career

7 Steps to Building a High-Performing Company Culture

In today's hyper-connected environment, each of us is made instantly aware of both the company culture don'ts (like UploadVR's "kink room") and the highly coveted dos (like Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's push for a more transparent customer feedback experience).If you are a business owner or executive, it's almost certain you want to differentiate your company in order to draw in and keep top talent.

Talent Pools: Pursuing the Passive Candidate

The best workers are engaged, productive, valued by their managers and peers, well compensated, and happy where they are.And they are the exact people I want to hire.To paraphrase an old joke about the dating pool: If desperation were attractive, the world would be a much happier place.

15 Ways to Improve Performance Evaluations

Given that only 55 percent of employees feel performance reviews are effective, leaders and managers have to start asking themselves: What can we do to make them better?Performance reviews and relevant feedback are essential to employee development and growth.

Your Future Is in the (Business) Cards

According to a Microsoft study, a goldfish now has a longer attention span than you do.Hey, over here — there's more!Microsoft found that the average human's attention span is now eight seconds, down from 12 seconds in 2000.