HRDemo Show Have you ever seen a demo come off without a hitch? There’s something about the combination of people trying to make a good impression and technology that creates really funny moments. Implicit in the notion of a software demonstration is the idea that there will be some level of failure. All software breaks during a demo. It’s a law of nature. What’s amazing about those moments of failure is that they show you the true nature of the team behind the software. When things go wrong, what surfaces is the corporate culture, the way the organization handles problems, embarrassments, and other snafus. More than anything else, what you want to know about a potential subcontractor is how they behave under these circumstances. How people behave during a s**tstorm is one of the most important things you can discover.

Genius or Crook? The line between transformative leader and criminal might be best understood as a whim of the grand jury. What seems like brilliance in the group-think of a company’s leadership ghetto often comes to haunt the team. Players seem to become perps almost overnight. Human Resources, particularly in its Talent Management modality, holds […]