The intersection between HR strategy and HR technology
So my wife has been on a homemade donut kick lately. That’s right, every weekend I get to sample another dozen donuts. Those of you who read often know that my constant struggle to stay fit must work really well when there is a new batch of donuts sitting around the house every Saturday morning. […]
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What exactly was Web 1.0? I honestly can’t even remember. I barely even remember Web 2.0 other than it was the advent of user interactivity so minimally executed that today’s teenagers would not even recognize it as internet. Oh, wait – I totally forgot that today’s teenagers no longer care about the internet. Here’s the […]
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So I’m looking for a restaurant. I bring up my phone, hold it up in front of me, and scan what’s around. It tells me that 1.2 miles over that way there is a Thai place that is rated week, or 0.65 miles the other way there is a BBQ place that everyone loves. I […]
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Yeah – I’m going to write about this. I just finished watching Zero Dark Thirty on the plane, and I’m thinking back to that day. I remember landing in the Chicago airport, booting up my phone and checking Twitter. Scrolling through the feed, one caught my eye: “bin Laden is down.” The tweet was more […]
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On my recent Taiwan trip with my family, one of my uncles tagged along for much of the tour. I really like this uncle as he is often quite interesting to talk to, and is an extremely smart guy. He’s been retired for a while from his last job as the COE of a major […]
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I was riding my bike around Marin (north of San Francisco) this fall, it was a bit cloudy, grey and not as bright as usual. Just the week before, I had purchased a new pair of lenses for my sunglasses, just for this occasion, and I was absolutely stunned at the difference it made to […]
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I’ll admit it. I fly United. I also know that everyone hates them, but I actually don’t. In fact, I’d fly United over any other carrier in the US (which does happen quite often). Ok, so sometimes extreme status helps out, but they do treat their upper tiers of status holders rather well. In the […]
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So I’ve been away for a year and I’ve let this website go a little bit. (I just started back up in September) I mean, if you click on any number of links, you’ll find error pages, pages that don’t load, or just pages that don’t display correctly. Basically, letting go for a year while […]
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There are three people who are pretty commonly in my car. They will go unnamed. One of them is pretty similar to me. She always knows where she is, which way is north, and can get around pretty well. The second has an idea, but has a tendency to say “left” when she really means […]
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I’m a nerd. I get on my bike or I go for a run, and I’ve got my Garmin GPS running the whole time telling me how far I went, how fast I went, what my heart rate was, (ok I’ll stop the list well before it gets to 20 items). I also happen to […]
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Techniques being used to find and hire talent have changed significantly in the last few years and it’s quickly moving toward a social process. According to a survey from Jobvite, 92% of companies in the US used social platforms for recruiting in 2012. 73% successfully hired a candidate through social media – a drastic increase from […]
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Just a couple years ago, my parents came back to the US after years of being overseas missionaries. They have been in Siberia, on a random island in the Pacific, etc… and they came back to a world where cell phones were ubiquitous and information was accessible everywhere. My father is now over 70 years […]
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Every now and then, I’m parked at a mall, convention center, airport, and I ask myself, “now where did I park my car? OK, so I don’t lose my car that often, but on occasion it happens. OK, I’m not at the mall or convention center that often either. At any rate, the appropriate action […]
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I love San Francisco. It’s a great city to live in, with lots of food, plenty to do, and great places to ride a bike. It also happens to be quite the interesting place for all sorts of reasons. I could point to the Golden Gate Park, numerous museums, beautiful hills and neighborhoods – but […]
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An interesting thing happened at the recent HR Technology Conference. During Naomi Bloom’s “Master Panel,” when Mike Capone noted that ADP had the first SaaS application, before anyone else and before anyone called it SaaS, many of my compatriots on twitter decided to tweet this statement. I have no issues with announcing to the world […]
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I’ll admit. I’m devastated. Lexy Martin and Thomas Otter were both presenting at the same time as this session. Had I the option, I would have pulled a Hermione Granger Time Turner thing. You know where she goes back in time to take more classes? I’d do that for these 3 sessions, but instead, I’m […]
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The talent management panel at The HR Technology Conference was all about diversity. Not diversity in terms of workforce, but the diversity in terms of approaches in deploying talent processes and technologies that different companies take in pursuit of their goals. With Jason Averbook hosting, we had Walmart (2+ million employees), Motorola Solutions (called themselves […]
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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 workshops. Then we synthesize what we have learned and create judgments and opinions, and then we document everything to the nth degree. Some people would argue […]
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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 as the next big gun in US cycling. In one race (San Diego I think), we were riding a horrifically fast pace, many of us in […]
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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 Taiwanese for highly unlikely or that’s ridiculous. (sp?) “Oh shiitake” (shitzu is also appropriate), is an imperfectly polite way of saying “oh &#!+” Basically, these are […]
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