systematicHR
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Annual HR Technology Survey
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There are some things that inform all of us in HR about what is going on with our industry and where things are headed. Of all these useful tools,…
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Creating Information from Knowledge from Collaboration
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It’s nice being a consultant. People like consultants because we have a specific approach to a problem. We talk to lots of people, look at lots of documents, conduct…
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The Pain Threshold
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Lance Armstrong was a US National Champion and a World Champion long before he ever won seven (eight?) Tours de France. The man was always known in cycling circles…
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Change Management, Enterprise Solutions, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Implementation
Missing Steps
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I started my day on Monday at 4am when my cab picked me up to head to the airport. As he missed the airport exit (how does that even…
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Real Time Activity Analysis
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Not only am I a geek, I’m a workout geek. The latest geeky gadget I’m lusting over is a Withings E-Scale. For just $165, I can get up in…
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Annual Plug for the HR Technology Survey
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Here’s the link – just go take it. www.cedarcrestone.com/survey/systematicHR.html For those of you who are actually going to read this, there are several surveys out there that the industry…
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Deception and Selling Your Data
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US President Obama is a Muslim, right? Raised in Kenya, he’s a Mau Mau sympathizer, and actually not even a US citizen (masterfully covered up I must add). Apparently…
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Better Measures for Engagement
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Is it Gallup that has the “Do you have a best friend at work” question? We’re so into doing employee surveys to measure employee engagement. They provide us with…
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Enterprise Solutions, HR Technology, Innovation, Point Solutions, Portal, Service Delivery, Vendor Mgmt, Web 2.0
The Technology Does Not Sell
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Years ago, there is a motorola executive was speaking to a group of students. He asks the students to answer a couple of simple questions, “who among you owns…
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Commonizing Meaning
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I have some favorite phrases that I’ve been picking up for years. “Eh, voila!” universal for “eh, voila!” “Ah, asodeska” Japanese for “I understand” (sp?) “Bo ko dien” is…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Governance, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Innovation, Knowledge Mgmt
Managing Thinking, Managing Knowledge
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On March 2, 2011, Pakistan’s Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated. Like others before him (including Benazir Bhutto), he was killed for standing up for the right…
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Decision effectiveness
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A few years ago, i had a custom set of wheels made for my bike. I had the rims specifically weighed and picked out of a set of about…
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Talent Evolution versus Revolution
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If you just bought one of the new 3D TVs that have been on he market for a year or so, i have bad news for you. Its already…
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Perspective and Benchmarking
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In my eyes, there are three components of being from California. First, you must always be on a diet. Second, you must always bee too fat. Third, you must…
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Fusion HCM Website is Up
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Just an FYI since this appears to be about the softest launch we’ve seen in ages. Considering we’ve been waiting for Fusion for a while. Here’s an FYI that…
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I Should Have Been A Rice Farmer
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OK, I’m Taiwanese, and I recently went back to Taiwan to visit family and see the “home country” that I’ve never been to. As I stayed in the apartment…
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Nerves and Decision Governance
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What makes us intelligent, able to make decisions based on our surrounding and pdictions of the future is not that we have an emmense amount of knowledge packed into…
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Merge, Outsource, Re-merge
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Imagine this. You’re fixing your house, and you take down a few walls to reconfigure how the place looks – it’s a bit more open, you can see more,…
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Nucleating agents for change
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Interesting thing about water. You can pretty significantly influence the temperature at which water freezes simply by introducing an agent to it. But there are other times when water…
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Recruiting Engagement
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So, I used to write this blog for me. Honestly, I could have cared less that anyone was reading it. It has been a great exercise for almost 6…