The cost of managerial silence

“A company that needs HR is a company with bad managers.” The statement is blunt and deliberately provocative, but it highlights a real issue: when managers are unwilling to address problems directly, HR ends up dealing with them instead, from everyday workplace...
The mote and the beam

The mote and the beam

A cognitive bias is a bit like cholesterol: everyone knows it exists, but nobody thinks it applies to them. Of course, it is always someone or something else that is biased. The colleague who “doesn’t understand the strategy”. The market that “reacts irrationally”....
The cushy job holders

The cushy job holders

At some point in our career, we have all encountered a manager whose real contribution is difficult to define. You genuinely wonder how they ever reached such a level of responsibility while contributing so little. Some of them have a remarkable ability to navigate...