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One of your top analysts just left, and you face a sudden increase in new projects. Do you scramble to make a last-minute hire from a tiny pool of applicants in hopes you can fill this frantic need?

Hitting the trifecta at Churchill Downs (or any track) is tricky enough. Hitting the candidate trifecta is an even tougher challenge. How can you manage your bet so that you win?

Adding an Analyst at the low end of the experience hierarchy can sometimes be the right move for your practice. Doing it successfully, though, requires finding a different way to assess your [...]

Managing Millennials is a challenge that every practice leader faces. Bruce Tulgan’s book offers some of the best perspectives and advice we have seen anywhere. We were able to button-hole the [...]

Take a breath. No, you’re probably not paying your people too much. But you would still like to know how much you should be paying them. Why is that question so hard to answer?

Sounds like a silly question, doesn’t it? But the answer could be more complex than you think, and more important to employee retention than you imagined.

Maybe you think this means paying more money. There are lots of ways to make your staff feel more valued that can cost you little or nothing. Interested?

Compensation tells the story to your employees about how you value them. That makes it uncomfortable talking with employees about their pay because there are so many ways those conversations can [...]

No one starts the hiring process expecting to fall into the Goldilocks Trap. But people can—and do—just the same. How do you avoid it?

You can read yourself to sleep at night with all the material about how to do your BVFLS work. But, how to build a practice that actually gets the work? That’s different. And Rod Burkert has some [...]