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
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
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
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