'We Pay for the Job Description, Not the Person In It'

'We Pay for the Job Description, Not the Person In It' - Liz Ryan, Forbes

I was an HR chief for eons. I went to a lot of conferences. I gravitated toward the fizzier aspects of HR - culture and communications stuff. I went to conferences about work-life programs and telecommuting and mentoring. I stayed away from the 'quant' side of HR as much as I could. But the conference that had the biggest impact on me over the years was a compensation conference I attended back in 1990. Read more here