Howard Harrison Blog

Semantics on Steroids
Among my least favorite meetings to attend during my forty years
in corporate America were those devoted to helping companies
write …

Companies’ biggest time-suck
When asked what the biggest time-waster is in their workday, most
employees say meetings. A Harris Poll survey showed the average
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A prominent behavioral economist – one of the horde of people who make a living telling companies how to run their business – …

“I’ve seen the future; it’s a bald-headed man
from New York!”
The day I learned how worthless performance reviews are was the day I …

At Walgreens, I worked in a cubicle. My next job, editing an eighty-four-page monthly magazine for the Hospital Financial Management Association, I just had …

At an auction of the late Hugh Hefner’s possessions, the typewriter he used in college was the top-selling item, going for $162,500. The founder …

In my first book—NOW They Make It Legal: Reflections of an Aging Baby Boomer—there was a chapter titled “Party: The Verb.” I explained how …

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out
This might seem an odd topic so early in the book. We’ve hardly
scratched …

Or is it inbreeding?
As soon as you’re hired, companies start the brainwashing process.
“Onboarding” is the term used today to describe the manner …

So, why is this person my boss?
Companies’ capricious hiring practices have their worst
consequences at the top. If you don’t get it right …