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Book Review: Robert Half On Hiring

A Robert Half book, published by The Penguin Group, reviewed by Reg Adkins. Robert Half has written several books on business topics. To me the most practical and applicable of them is “Robert Half on Hiring.” In this book Half takes the time to analyze and quantify the hiring process in all of its component parts. He…

Milking it whole, not skim

It used to be that the phrase “milking it” carried a pretty negative connotation with it for me, for as kids we only used it about people we thought were taking advantage of some situation without earning the right to do so. People who were “milking it” were the human equivalent of leeches. However I’ve recently…

Why Top Employees Quit

… It is a good question which every employers and managers want to know the answer. Would be ideal to keep all A-players in the company, but why would they quit? Many times that I observed when someone who is top performers left the company, it is always something in the company that throw him off. Jay…