Bad Leadership

Get The Wrong People Off The Bus

Melissa Fairman · November 18, 2015 ·

Last week I read an article about a startup called Code42, based in Minneapolis. After raising additional funds and seeing 100% year over year growth employees might have felt pretty good about their future. Or maybe not... The company recently laid off 30 employees. Of … [Read more...] about Get The Wrong People Off The Bus

The Bad Manager Hangover

Melissa Fairman · October 12, 2015 ·

Moving into any new leadership role can be difficult. It is even more difficult if you are inheriting a team that has been badly managed or neglected. In these teams you’ve inherited a situation that is a challenge for the most-experienced leaders. The people on these teams … [Read more...] about The Bad Manager Hangover

Don’t Hire A Master Of The Universe

Melissa Fairman · February 19, 2014 ·

Do you love talking with obnoxious know-it-alls? People that think their way is the only way? How do you like working with these people? Yea, I don’t either. Spend enough time contributing to the GDP, and you will run into the kind of people … [Read more...] about Don’t Hire A Master Of The Universe

Getting Out of the HR Box

Many of you may know me from my blog HrRemix. I love that blog. I’ve met amazing people through that blog. Its sparked fantastic conversations and great friendships. But its on hold. Truthfully its been on hold for a while now. I’ve posted sporadically but never enough to really get and keep an audience like […]

How Do You Change A Company?

Once you realize that you have to change your team, your department, your division or an entire company, how do you do that? Changing the strategic focus of even the smallest organizations can be difficult. This is even more difficult when you have a successful product that defines your company. To sideline that product, to […]

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