# Workforce Alchemy Magazine

A monthly leadership magazine for CEOs, business owners, executives and senior HR leaders. Each issue turns conversations with practitioners into articles on hiring, leadership, culture, sales and customer experience.

## Current issue: November 2026

**November 2026**

Hiring like a sales team, metrics that hide unhappy customers, leading under pressure, outgrown thought habits, coaching instead of answering, and the leadership problem hiding inside a labor shortage.

Full table of contents: https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/issues/november-2026/

### In this issue

- [Your Second Sales Force: Human Resources](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/your-second-sales-force-human-resources/). By Mason Duchatschek. If you want better employees, stop recruiting like everyone else. Start competing for talent the way your sales team competes for customers. You can't hire great employees if they never apply. Yet…
- [Your Metrics Look Great, and Your Customers Are Miserable](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/your-metrics-look-great-and-your-customers-are-miserable/). Insights from James Killian. I once spent more than an hour trying to navigate a medical provider's supposedly easy-to-use app. Seven employees couldn't solve the problem. When the organization's quality control department…
- [Leadership Mistakes That Make a Bad Situation Worse](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/leadership-mistakes-that-make-a-bad-situation-worse/). Insights from Marc Hildebrand. A CEO can make the right call and still damage the company by mishandling the moment. Pressure does not just reveal judgment. It reveals whether the person in charge can control the reaction…
- [Your Business May Have Outgrown the Thinking That Built It](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/your-business-may-have-outgrown-the-thinking-that-built-it/). Insights from Amy Kemp. A business owner receives an email from a prospective client declining an offer. The immediate financial impact is manageable. The emotional reaction is another story. Within seconds, one…
- [The More Answers You Give Your Employees, the More They Need You](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/the-more-answers-you-give-your-employees-the-more-they-need-you/). Insights from Chris Bittinger. A manager can answer every question, solve every problem, and make every decision for the team. From the outside, that might look like effective leadership. Inside the organization, something less…
- [Cover Story: Your Labor Problem Might Be a Leadership Problem in Disguise Cover story](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/cover-story-your-labor-problem-might-be-a-leadership-problem-in-disguise-cover-story/). Insights from Debbie McKinley. A company can spend millions trying to solve a staffing problem without realizing it already has enough employees. The real problem may be that those employees are in the wrong places, doing the…

## From the archive

- [October 2026](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/issues/october-2026/)
- [September 2026](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/issues/september-2026/)
- [August 2026](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/issues/august-2026/)
- [June 2026](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/issues/june-2026/)
- [May 2026](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/issues/may-2026/)
- [April 2026](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/issues/april-2026/)

All issues: https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/issue-archive/

## Sections

- [Leadership](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/category/leadership/) (37)
- [Culture](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/category/culture/) (17)
- [Sales & Marketing](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/category/sales-marketing/) (14)
- [Customer Experience](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/category/customer-experience/) (11)
- [Hiring & Assessments](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/category/hiring-assessments/) (10)
- [AI & Innovation](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/category/ai-innovation/) (4)
- [Strategy](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/category/strategy/) (3)
- [Entrepreneurship](https://workforcealchemymagazine.com/category/entrepreneurship/) (1)

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