Author Archives: Stan

Selling the sizzle

At the Corporate Directors Forum conference in January here in San Diego, we heard from John Carreyrou, the author of Bad Blood:  Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.  I picked up the book from the gift table, and … Continue reading

Posted in The People | Comments Off on Selling the sizzle

Who’s in your mirror?

By Serra Sewitch-Posey I was 20 years old and on a Greyhound bus from Seattle to Denver, for no real reason other than I had taken a semester off from Chico State and wanted to head East for once. The … Continue reading

Posted in The People | Comments Off on Who’s in your mirror?

Pandering to a short attention span

Much of the conventional wisdom offered today about how to “engage” audiences, get your content read online, keep attention of conference attendees and not put people to sleep in a class centers around the “fact” that people have short attention … Continue reading

Posted in The People | Comments Off on Pandering to a short attention span

A fork in the economic road

I work for WD-40 Company as head of human resources.  We have employees in 15 countries.  Every year we do a global compensation analysis to determine what our next fiscal year’s compensation budget is going to be.  We use the … Continue reading

Posted in Politics and Business | Comments Off on A fork in the economic road