Marc Drizin

It’s been too long, I have much to write, and much to comment on.  But that will wait until tomorrow. I got something in the mail yesterday to get me out of my birthday doldrums. attract motivate retain Music to my eyes. In small letters on a postcard no-less. Those three words are an integral [...]

First off, I can’t believe nobody groaned at me about my Worldwide Pants comment in yesterday’s blog.  Not only was it pertinent to my snarky comments about David Letterman, it also happens to be the name of his entertainment company.  However I found it hilarious. Anyways… Two studies showed up on my electronic doorstep today, [...]

(yea, I’m back)… I’m blessed with having really great clients.  Some push me (and my products and services) to higher and higher levels of quality.  Others invite me into strategic discussions about talent management.  Still others ask me to involve myself in their process improvement efforts related to workforce engagement and customer satisfaction. And then [...]

As you’re reading this, I’ll be enjoying my sight-seeing day in Quito.  The Old Town – site of churches, government, squares and shopping. The historic old town of Colonial Quito is the jewel in Ecuador’s crown. The city was designated the first UNESCO World Heritage City in 1978 in recognition of the importance of its [...]

I’ve developed a workshop that a colleague of mine is conducting tomorrow on the importance of human resource business metrics, beyond the classic “time to fill”.  As I wrote in the workshop related to the Time To Fill metric…“however measuring the number of minutes it takes to cook dinner never tells you whether the food [...]

I’m opening a new business soon as part of Employee Hold’em, a company that will work with high school students (and their parents) determine the best course of action during their junior and senior years of high school and beyond.  The cost of a four year private university is approaching one-hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars [...]

My kid is coming back home after spending the last several months in Wyoming.  I think he is going to stay for a while (read: a long long long long long time) while he figures out what to do next with his life.  He graduated college last May and wants to/plans to go back to [...]

For the last two years we have been involved in a series of behavioral job interviews.  Dozens of men (and one woman) had been put to the test, asked questions about how they would respond to issues of critical importance.  Some answers were short, and some were too darned long.  In a few cases the [...]

I just got my new Staples In Store Credit Card.  It’s grey and shiny, and it has my Staples Rewards number printed right on it.  I used it right away, and now I’m looking at all the cool new stuff I bought.  Did I need it all?  Nah, but that’s not the point.  It’s about [...]

There are interesting correlations between recruiting a good candidate to fill an open position and what is going on in the  race for the presidential nomination of the Democratic party.  Without going into my own conservative or liberal leanings, remember that I am a political science major, so I LOVE THIS STUFF.  Big time. We’ve [...]