‘Boss's Tip of the Week’ Archives
Boss’s Tip of the Week #43: Working With HR: How Human Resources Can Help You Get the Most Out of Your Team
Here is the latest installment of the Boss’s Tip of the Week. This advice column for managers is brought to you by Bob Rosner and Allan Halcrow, co-authors of The Boss’s Survival Guide. Using a popularity scale of one to 10, with 10 being wildly popular (Betty White, a free lunch, and after-Christmas sales) and one being wildly unpopular [...]
Boss’s Tip of the Week #42: Virtual Employees: How to Manage the People You Can’t See
Here is the latest installment of the Boss’s Tip of the Week. This advice column for managers is brought to you by Bob Rosner and Allan Halcrow, co-authors of The Boss’s Survival Guide. Out of sight should not be out of mind. Nor should out of sight drive you out of your mind. Yet both scenarios are pretty common when it comes to managing [...]
Boss’s Tip of the Week #41: Drug and Alcohol Abuse: How to Confront Addicted Employees
Here is the latest installment of the Boss’s Tip of the Week. This advice column for managers is brought to you by Bob Rosner and Allan Halcrow, co-authors of The Boss’s Survival Guide. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground and spilled millions of gallons of oil into Alaska’s pristine offshore waters, it was an ecological disaster. It was [...]
Boss’s Tip of the Week #40: Religion: How to Respect Established Practices
Here is the latest installment of the Boss’s Tip of the Week. This advice column for managers is brought to you by Bob Rosner and Allan Halcrow, co-authors of The Boss’s Survival Guide. You’re forgiven if you’re confused. On the one hand, we want to know everything about the religious beliefs of our politicians. And we want them to have [...]
Boss’s Tip of the Week #39: 360-Degree Feedback: How to Get the Truth (and Improve Your Performance)
Here is the latest installment of the Boss’s Tip of the Week. This advice column for managers is brought to you by Bob Rosner and Allan Halcrow, co-authors of The Boss’s Survival Guide. Top executives (read: high-profile CEOs) in big, publicly traded companies (and a lot of governments) routinely get feedback from all sides. Their [...]
Boss’s Tip of the Week #38: Overtime/Comp Time: How to Pay People
Here is the latest installment of the Boss’s Tip of the Week. This advice column for managers is brought to you by Bob Rosner and Allan Halcrow, co-authors of The Boss’s Survival Guide. You’ve seen the shell game: someone puts a small object (a walnut, perhaps) under one of three identical shells or cups and quickly rearranges them. The [...]


