Today, Cranky Middle Manager Wayne Turmel talks to one of the great voices in leadership studies, Frances Hesselbein about leadership, Peter Drucker and her new book, The Organization of the Future 2. Oh and sorry about the size of the file, don’t know what’s going on with that….. ...

Welcome the Round 2 of the March Madness version of the HR Carnival!  Who's the Cinderella Story going to be?   Who's Duke, who's UConn?  Who is Butler?  Who is Dick Vitale? Instead of asking our staff at the HRC/FOT to vote on the blogs, we're doing a a web poll and as...

As my friend Jerry Garcia would say “What a long strange trip it’s been.�Many moons ago I was an HR generalist in the fastest growing manufacturing start-up in history. Things moved fast… really fast. Until you experience growing from $100......

Welcome the March Madness version of the HR Carnival!  Who's the Cinderella Story going to be?   Who's Duke, who's UConn?  Who is Butler?  Who is Dick Vitale? In the endless quest for themes to freshen this thing up, I think I’ve got a good one – we’re deeming this HR Carni...

According to the New York Times, the President sent a secret and hand written letter to Russian President Dimitri Medvedev last month suggesting that the United States would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range we...

S. 422, a bill introduced by Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan earlier this month, has a companion in the House, Lois Capps‘ H.R. 1032. It takes the short title of the “HEART for Women Act of 2009,” with HEART being an acronym for “Heart Disease Education, Analysis Research...

A porn star draping boobs over an employee's head. Lapdances on the company dime. $50 million in back taxes. These are just some of the charges Penthouse publisher FriendFinder Networks is facing from an ex-employee. Natalie Cedeno, the company's former HR director, says that company executives reta...

Whatever else you might say about conservative Republicans in the United States Congress, they certainly have a knack for naming bills. Nobody wanted to vote against “The USA Patriot Act” or “The Protect America Act,” even though they subverted patriotism and failed to protec...

And so begins another fight over data retention. As Declan summarizes: Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records...

As of this morning, 59 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed on in support of H.R. 997, a bill to declare English the national language of the United States and (with some exceptions for national security, criminal justice and the like) to mandate that only English be used in fede...