Governance
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Symphony: Scope of Sight
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From where the conductor stands, she sees and hears everything. This is the perfect place from which to direct and convey small changes in vision. The conductor is perfectly…
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Collaborative Teams
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04-20 I’ll admit that as much as I talk about web 2.0 and collaboration networks, collaboration is simply not a set of tools. Collaboration can be made more efficient…
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Symphony: A Light Touch
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One of the secrets of good conducting is to have a light touch. What actually happens is when a conductor tries to force movements or over-emphasize and overpower the…
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Symphony: Trust Your Section Leads
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It’s pretty amazing when you watch a symphony or orchestra work. You see the conductor doing her thing front and center. You see violins sitting together in perfect coordination,…
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Changing Governance Based on Complexity
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So I suppose first and foremost, I’ll need to admit that I didn’t even read nearly the entire article I happen to be referring to in this post. I’m…
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So, do you really want to know what your consultant thinks?
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As we all know, many consultants are simply “yes men.” They tell you exactly what you either want to hear, or already know. In many cases, there is really…
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String Theory and Particles
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As long as I’m writing about the Hadron Collider, I might as well write about string theory. I’m not sure how to simplify this for non-scientists (I’m not one…
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What is a Center of Expertise?
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In our traditional 3-circle HR service delivery models (Ulrich model really), one of the major components is the center of excellence or center of expertise (COE). The COE has…
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Why We Don’t Need HR
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Simon Baker wrote a piece that was not as inflammatory as the well known “Why We Hate HR” article a couple years ago. I found it quite entertaining and…
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Diagramming Web 2.0 versus Enterprise 2.0
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I like pictures. CIPD published a paper that was honestly quite annoying, but contained a couple of little gems. I was annoyed because the paper was entitled Web 2.0…
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Why HR Can’t Implement Web 2.0
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Joel Cheeseman wrote an interesting piece on Web 2.0 a couple months ago in the Industry Insider. An outsider is led to believe such cutting-edge tactics in the employment…
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Why Technology Projects Fail 1
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You take on a project to change something in your organization. If you’re reading this, often you’ll be implementing some sort of technology. Why do projects fail? Often, it’s…
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On Blackberry Use and Bad Governance
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Not to offend anyone in particular, but I’ve noticed a trend among companies I visit: Organizations where (under the table) blackberry use during meetings runs rampant tend to have…
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HR as Sales
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I often think that senior HR practitioners don’t think about sales as often as they should. Too much of the time, HR thinks that their performance in the delivery…
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Universal Best Practices
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It’s funny to me that these are even called best practices. First of all, there really are no “best practices”. Perhaps these should be called “leading practices” or even…
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How Do You Identify High Potential Employees?
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The Institute for Corporate Productivity (is there an institute for everything?) recently conducted a study on high potential employees and the practices of organizations around them. If you want…
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Game Theory and HR
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If you haven’t figured out by now, I have a degree in Economics. Game theory as published by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosohy is “the systematic study of interdependent…
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Sometimes Being Strategic Is Not What’s Next
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February 11, 2008 A long time ago (I’m behind on my reading) the HR Thoughts blog had a piece about not trying to be strategic all the time. While…
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Social Media Best Practice #1
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I don’t know whether the other Systematic (systematicviewpoints.com) intended for his first post on social media best practices to infer that this best practice (#1) is also the most…