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Mathan Allington
7 min read
Culture is not an event (it's the sum of your micro decisions)
Sharon Gray doesn't think culture is academic. She thinks it's everything.
7 min read
The unconventional path (and why the best people leaders never started in HR)
Edan Haddock was arranging wedding bouquets when most HR professionals were writing their first performance review.
7 min read
AI won't replace HR (but it will expose who's been coasting)
One of Movember's founders pulled Edan Haddock aside and asked him, point blank, what on earth he was doing. "We're humanistic. Why are you bringing...
7 min read
The 'Brilliant Jerk' problem (and why every winner has a bad hire story)
Alex Pusenjak was sitting across from someone who ticked every box. The technical skills were sharp. The KPIs were being smashed. On paper, this...
7 min read
Purpose is the new perk (and why mission-driven cultures are winning the talent war)
Sharon Gray went home and asked her kids.
8 min read
From cost centre to command centre: how HR leaders are rewriting their own story
Somewhere in the middle of Matt McFarlane's interview, he said something that made everyone pause. "We already are strategic, we're just doing a...
4 min read
What whiteboard markers can teach us about employee engagement
Rudy CrousDeepak Singh asked his team a simple question after running an engagement survey: what would actually make a real difference? Some teams came back...
4 min read
Culture is who you promote, not what's on the wall
Most companies define culture as their values statement, their Friday drinks, their Slack emojis. Teresa Lilly, founder of Culture Pilot Co and a...
5 min read
Why pay is never about the number (and what startups keep getting wrong)
Pay is one of those things that founders think they can figure out later. Matt McFarlane, compensation consultant and founder of FNDN, has spent...
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