What is a culture of honest inquiry, and how do you create one?
Here’s one place to start: Don’t let anyone hide from logic whose results they don’t like.
Including yourself.
Last week’s column proposed that in our current extraordinary circumstances you consider replacing several employees who “meet expectations” with one exceptional new hire.
It started out as a very different column, all about valuing and preserving the people you have. I hated the column’s conclusions.
Ready for ugly?
Unemployment has reached 7.6 percent, up from 4.9 percent one year ago.
Ignore this statistic. It counts only those actively looking for work — not a particularly useful metric. More interesting is the employment level, down 4,218,000 adult Americans in the last year.
It’s interesting if you’re among the unemployed, less because misery loves company than because who needs this much competition?
And it’s interesting if you’re a CIO, because with this many people out of work, there have to be opportunities to hire great people.
