by Jason Lauritsen | Jan 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve been doing a lot of introspection over the past several months. Making the transition from a corporate HR executive to HR Consultant and speaker requires some pretty serious mindset shifts. Through this process, one question keeps coming up for me to...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jan 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of my favorite blogs is PsyBlog: Understand your Mind. Since I believe that one of the best practices of a leader or human resources pro is to study people and why we do what we do, a blog that regularly presents interesting research into how our mind works...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jan 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s the time of year where I watch an awful lot of sports (at least as much as my schedule and my family will allow). While watching a basketball game this weekend and thinking about the experiences my high school freshmen son is having with basketball...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of the things I’ve always said is one of my skills is the ability to make big, messy mistakes. I participated in a starter marriage that lasted 18 months. I wrote a business plan about a decade ago that I spent near 2 years pitching to angel...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Wow have we screwed up the practice of management within our organizations. I’m not sure when it happened or how it happened, but along the way we decided that our job as managers was to increase the comfort of our employees and to take away any discomfort...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jan 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
You don’t even have to be a football fan to be aware of the Tim Tebow phenomenon happening in the NFL this year. I love the story and I love what his success represents. But, probably not for the same reason a lot of other people do. While I think...
