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The value of dignity in work – give or take 6 minutes

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The company’s human resources department described “excessive use of the bathroom as…60 minutes or more over the last 10 working days…do the math and it works out to 6 minutes a day,” the article stated. I suspect this stroke of timesaving brilliance was born out of a not-so-unusual concern about productivity or output.

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The best and the brightest

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I hear a lot of talk about companies wanting to hire the best and the brightest (I’m going to abbreviate this as BaB for this article). In 2004, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled, The Risky Business of Hiring Rock Stars. Follow this link to listen to our first podcast with Keith. Is there something better?