Tuesday, December 16, 2025
SUSIE WILES SPILLS THE BEANS TO TRY TO SAVE HER REP AND HER BUTT
BREAKING: Vanity Fair author Chris Whipple just revealed stunning details from his conversations with Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff.
NEW INC. MAGAZINE COLUMN FROM HOWARD TULLMAN
Beware These Retention and
Recruitment Mistakes That Will Hurt Employee Engagement
Investing
in your people is the highest and best use of any entrepreneur’s time and
energy.
EXPERT OPINION BY HOWARD TULLMAN, GENERAL MANAGING PARTNER, G2T3V
AND CHICAGO HIGH TECH INVESTORS @HOWARDTULLMAN1
Dec 16, 2025
The vast majority of the
heated headcount conversations taking place in businesses across the country
are primarily focused on workforce reductions, with companies thinking purely
short term and trying to “save their way to success.” Sadly, this is both a
pipedream and a fool’s errand. It’s still the rule that you’ve got to
spend money to make money. Simply cutting back broadly and indiscriminately on
your people across the board in a frantic panic designed to please your
directors and bankers isn’t the way to build your business for the future.
You’ve spent time and
plenty of dollars finding and training these folks, and their experience and
specific product and service know-how isn’t going to be that easy to replace
when things get better. The general stupidity of the DOGE people in their wholesale
dismissals and especially the work of the wrestling moron running the
Department of Education (who is now begging dozens of key employees who were
abruptly dumped to return to their jobs) is a great example of exactly what not
to do.
The next most frequent
discussions relate to the need for rapid recruitment of new employees with an
over-emphasis on AI-first prospects. Of course, virtually every profile
on LinkedIn has already been modified to describe AI chops and vast abilities
in that area. And while it’s undoubtedly true in theory that it’s easier today
to teach an AI jock about marketing than
it is to teach an experienced marketer all about AI, mastery of the new tools
and techniques is only an important part of the new job requirements and not
the be-all and end-all of the story. It’s a lot more efficient and actually
less costly to pair some of your key experienced people with some really
smart young people with the right attitudes who can use
the new methods to amplify and extend the business’s experience base and
increase productivity without the pains and delays of
trying to learn the ins-and-outs of a whole new industry on the fly. Leave the
rocket science to the rookies, but don’t bet the whole business on a bunch of
whiz kids. As my mother used to say: “Hire a young carpenter, but an old
physician.”
So, companies should
feel free to recruit away, but not at the risk of angering, frustrating or
demotivating their current team members. They need a story and a vision that
works just as well inside as outside the company. But this juggling act is a
lot easier said than done, which is why far too many companies end up
overlooking and failing to incorporate it into their overall HR strategies.
This puts a substantial premium on retaining their key employees, regardless of
tenure, instead of basically taking them for granted and ignoring their own
needs and desires.
It’s too late to fix an
unhappy situation or retain a key member of the team once they’re already out
the door. The best time to keep an employee is before he or she
leaves. And the scariest and most unfortunate part of the problem is that the best
people aren’t interested in conflicts or complaints. They just make up their
minds one day and leave. This is why you can never afford to leave well enough
alone. It pays long-term benefits to pay attention all the time.
The risks in our
businesses that leave us most vulnerable are the ones we fail to foresee. But
today there are cost-effective and relatively easy ways to build yourself and
your HR team your very own “crystal ball” to give you a realistic and practical
view of the future. I have to admit that when I first looked into this area, I
was very skeptical that the data (captured anonymously) and the underlying
algorithms could be sufficiently predictive and instructive to be of real
value. However, we have watched for more than a decade the growth and success
of Balloon,
which has built a powerful employee survey and suggestion system based on
anonymous inputs which clearly adds immediate value to its users.
One leading company in
this new space is Holistic, which provides a comprehensive program
called SafeAhead. As you might expect, this system will help you move your
team from a painful past of simply reacting to the bad news of unexpected
employee departures to a process of proactive actions based on predictive data
(customized to your company) which will let you anticipate, intercept and
proactively interrupt employee departure plans effectively before the targeted
employees even begin planning to leave.
Holistic provides a company-wide analysis and set of reports that specifically
identify the levels of departure risk associated with each and every team
member based on where they are located in the company (departmentally and
geographically), their tenure, their levels of management responsibility, their
compensation, and various external considerations which are also relevant to
their overall attitudes such as changes in their management, missed advancement
opportunities, and relocation challenges. As an example, we know that people
may hire on because of a company’s reputation or vision, but they regularly
leave because of management—especially very early in their employment.
Holistic’s broader
reports roll up to provide small actionable target groups of high-risk
employees along with specifics regarding each person’s issues and concerns as
well as suggestions for management as to how these problems can be addressed
and remedied in real time in order to prevent costly and disruptive departures.
Visual aids and matrices let senior management see at a glance where in the
business the greatest problem areas are located and just how many employees in
each given department or division are at various degrees of departure risk.
Responding and reacting
to these reports which are predicated on numerous variables like degrees
of employee engagement,
changes in performance levels, and other supervisory and management issues lets
senior management get ahead of the game and stay ahead of inchoate problems by
taking affirmative and specifically responsive actions in each case.
I call this approach
“preemptive empathy” and every business can use far more of it. Caring for and
investing in your people is the highest and best use of any entrepreneur’s time
and energy. The real trick is to train your employees well enough so that they
could leave; but treat them well enough so they don’t want to.
Monday, December 15, 2025
COULD THERE BE A SICKER, MORE DISGUSTING AND DERANGED CRIMINAL THAN THIS PIG?
Trump attack on Rob
Reiner tests the limits, even for his MAGA base
The
president accused Reiner, who was stabbed to death along with his wife, of
having “Trump derangement syndrome”
Updated
December 15, 2025 at
6:30 p.m. EST34 minutes ago
In the decade since he announced his presidential campaign
by branding immigrants as criminals and rapists, the accepted wisdom about
Donald Trump has become this: No matter how outrageous are the things he says,
he feels no consequences.
With each offensive blast, Republican elected officials are
rendered mute, or tell inquiring journalists they haven’t seen the latest and
quickly excuse themselves. MAGA influencers applaud and celebrate the ire Trump
generates from the left as “owning the liberals.”
So what happened Monday was noteworthy — maybe a sign that
there really is a limit to how low Trump can take the public discourse, maybe
evidence that his powers are waning or maybe nothing more than an anomalous
disturbance in the force.
There was actual blowback from some on the right over the
president’s reaction to the stabbing deaths of Hollywood director Rob Reiner
and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, allegedly at the hands of their 32-year-old son who
had struggled for years with addiction and mental illness. As Trump is wont to
do, he made it all about himself.
The president described the tragedy this way on the Truth Social media platform that
has become an outlet for his id: “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but
once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together
with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through
his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease
known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS.”
Reiner, Trump wrote, “was known to have driven people CRAZY
by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia
reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and
expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps
like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
This was too much for a handful of conservative influencers
who have large followings of their own.
“What happened last night to Rob Reiner and his wife was a
savage butchering of 2 human lives. I don’t care what their politics were or
how they felt about Trump, no law abiding human deserves this. We should pray
for + send condolences to his loved ones and NOT make it political,” filmmaker
Robby Starbuck wrote on X.
British broadcaster Piers Morgan, a longtime friend of
Trump, wrote: “This is a dreadful thing to say about a man who just got
murdered by his troubled son. Delete it, Mr President.”
And even a few Republicans in Congress — albeit those such
as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia) and Thomas Massie (Kentucky) who have
already had their differences with Trump — spoke out. Massie wrote: “Regardless
of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful
discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP
colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re
afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it.”
Reiner, who directed what are regarded as a host of modern Hollywood’s finest
films, was a major force in Democratic politics and a frequent
critic of the president. His shocking and violent death drew immediate
comparisons with the assassination in September of conservative influencer
Charlie Kirk.
Andrew Kolvet, spokesman for Kirk’s organization Turning
Point USA, posted a video on X in which Reiner described his reaction to Kirk’s
death as “horror — absolute horror.” Kolvet wrote: “Rob Reiner responded with
grace and compassion to Charlie’s assassination. This video makes it all the
more painful to hear of he and his wife’s tragic end. May God be close to the
broken hearted in this terrible story.”
But that “grace and compassion” was not universal in the
country’s overheated political environment. After Kirk’s death, some of his
critics faced blistering criticism for making harsh comments about him.
As news of Reiner’s death spread, “liberals are desperately
searching for a prominent conservative mocking Rob Reiner and his wife
passing,” a MAGA commentator who posts as Gunther Eagleman wrote on X, a
platform where he has 1.6 million followers. Trump’s blast came nine hours
later.
“A man and his wife were murdered last night. This is NOT
the appropriate response,” wrote Jenna Ellis, a former attorney pardoned by
Trump for her involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. “The Right
uniformly condemned political and celebratory responses to Charlie Kirk’s
death. This is a horrible example from Trump (and surprising considering the
two attempts on his own life) and should be condemned by everyone with any
decency.”
Others on the right, however, quickly fell in line behind
Trump. After predicting “You won’t see people on the right celebrating the
horrific murder of Rob Reiner and his wife,” Jack Posobiec (3.2 million
followers) wrote on X: “Where is the celebration in Trump’s post? He isn’t
celebrating, he is warning.”
And GOP congressional leaders, were true to form. Senate
Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) declined to comment on Trump’s
outburst, saying only: “It’s a tragedy, and my sympathies and prayers go out
the Reiner family and to their friends.”
In the holiday season, “we have to appeal to our better
angels, and I think we’ve got to amplify those voices and those sentiments,”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) told reporters on Monday. Then he
hastened down a private hallway to his office.
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