Absolute Citrin

by Richard Citrin

June 03, 2022

Why Elon is RIght and How Other Companies Will Implement Return to Work

Elon Musk set the world aflutter this week by announcing that Tesla office employees would be required to return to the office for a minimum of 40 hours, and if they do not show up, Tesla would consider that they’ve resigned from their positions. Consultants and HR professionals were up in arms. They predicted that recruiters would have a field day picking off Musk’s best and brightest and that Tesla would be fighting a battle with employees over our two...

February 18, 2021

Don’t Assume Expertise

We rightfully expect that people on our team will know what to do within their areas of expertise. It is not, however, reasonable to expect that they will know how to do things outside their area of expertise, especially around people skills. Leaders often assume, for example, that people know how to behave and work on team, but if your folks were not in the marching band, drama club or an athletic team, they may not have learned that skill...

June 10, 2019

Learn Something New…3X10

April 16, 2014

Be Like Ryan

I just go back from my car place, Tower Auto, where the young guy I deal with was working on detailing my wife’s car until 10 PM last night. Now detailing is not his job. He is more of a service manager but he so enjoys helping his clients that he was willing to stay late to try to remove some stains that had developed on the outside of the car. Ryan is really into cars and he loves working at...

February 24, 2012

Leadership: Influence with Information

constituent feel like the constituent is the most important person in the world and I imagine Bill must have had this skill to the nth degree. The show described the story about the Federal shutdown and how Clinton was sure that if he got then Speaker Newt Gingrich in a room with him, he could win him over and get Gingrich to back down from his request for a balanced budget. But no matter what Clinton did, Newt would not...

February 17, 2012

Talent: He's "Lintastic"