Business Articles
Tim Toterhi, CHRO
(Toe-Ter-Rye)
Tim has over 20 years of management experience in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He’s been quoted in publications such as Fast Company, Forbes, Fox Business News, and the HuffPost as well as profiled in the book, Magnificent Leadership.
How To Reset After a Win
Success…even impending success can sometimes cloud focus. When your hustle starts to pay off and the plates seem to spin automatically, the “what’s next?” question can flood your senses with opportunities, distractions, and imaginary issues. If you find yourself...
Luck’s Role in Career Success
There are two types of luck. The kind you make and the kind that occasionally drops into your life. The latter can happen. You might snag a job at a scrappy start-up destined to become the next billion-dollar unicorn. Maybe you’ll ride the coattails of the generous,...
How to Stay Productive During the Holidays
As another year comes to a close, we look forward to some well-deserved rest and time off to celebrate with family and friends. Of course real-world obligations don’t disappear because the calendar is dotted with holidays. Bills arrive along with Christmas cards and...
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How to Focus Like an Executive
By the time you reach the C-Suite you know how to win. You’ve learned how to leverage your skills, hire around your weaknesses, and construct creative workarounds to complex problems that inhabit the messy middle. All of this takes focus and purposeful action. While...
Mistakes Managers Make When Reviewing Resumes
Most recruiters and hiring managers spend little more than thirty seconds scanning a resume before deciding whether to toss it or save it for further consideration. Poorly written resumes are of course doomed for the circular file as are ill-placed applicants. There’s...
How to Beat the Resume Bot
Crafting a resume is always a challenge, and it's even more so when attempting to outthink the Sky-net-style gatekeepers who seem hell-bent on screening out applicants. But before littering your document with a kaleidoscope of keywords to beat the bot, consider these...
Diversity: It’s What’s On the Inside
Dear HR, Stop looking to the external to define diversity. If 100% of your executive or HR team is liberal or conservative, you don’t have diversity of thought; you have a groupthink starter kit. Over time, this can lead to bias in hiring, performance, compensation,...
Can You Advance as a Non-Manager?
Empire building is a popular way to scale the corporate ladder, but it’s not the only means of advancement. Independent contributors can demonstrate their importance to an organization in a variety of ways such as specialized subject matter expertise, customer...
Quitting Without a New Job
When a boss, co-worker, or customer adds the straw that feels like the last, it’s tempting to consider quitting. It might even be fun – fantasizing about the big storm out. And in the right economy, assuming you have low expenses and in demand skills, it might even...