Change Management
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Implementation, Service DeliveryThe Evolution of Standardization
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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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The Endless Immensity of the Sea
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t gather people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Saint-Exupery Ok – so I don’t get out on the water that often, and I’m a cyclist so I tend to…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Governance, HR Strategy, HR Strategy and TechnologyThinking Like A Leader
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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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Branding, Change Management, Communications, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Implementation, Portal, Service Delivery
Dysfunctional Self Service
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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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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Functional, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Service Delivery, Web 2.0I Can Finally Buy My Dad a Smart Phone
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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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All Posts, Blogging, Change Management, Communications, Data & Metrics, Enterprise Solutions, Governance, HR Technology, Social, Social and Gamification, Social Talent, Web 2.0Social Taxonomies: Tagging versus Crowd Metrics
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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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Using HR Analytics to WIN
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So I have to admit it’s hard to come off the election and not write about this. This election was defined by some pretty deep population analysis, incredible forecasting and pretty significant actions to try to address the most important populations. All of this went right along with a prioritization model that was pretty strong. …
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Absurdity (Parental Advisory)
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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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All Posts, Blogging, Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Social, Social Talent, Web 2.0Feedback and Calling BS in Social
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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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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 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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Change Management, Enterprise Solutions, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, ImplementationMissing 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 happen?) I thought to myself that missing my plane would cause me to miss a series of 4 conference calls in the afternoon. Given that it…
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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 in a new poll, fully 50% of the US population registered with the Republican party believe this ((Joe Klein, “Huckabucking.” Time Magazine, March 11, 2011. Page…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Governance, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Innovation, Knowledge MgmtManaging 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 of Pakistanian citizens to believe in whatever they wanted to believe. In this case, Bhatti was a Christian, and (to his detriment) was outspoken about it. …
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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 my family had rented, surrounded by rice paddies on all sides, i realized how close I was to having been a rice farmer of some type.…
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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 actually should freeze, when it is pure and below the freezing temperature, but that water can be held in a liquid state at just below the…
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Dulling the Noise
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So I admit that I use multiple methods to dull the noise when I’m on a plane. The first are the industrial grade ear plugs from Home Depot. I love these things, but by themselves, it’s not enough. Second in the line of defense are the Bose noise reduction headsets. Combined with the ear plugs,…
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The Butterfly Effect
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In 1972, Edward Lorenz wrote a paper called “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?” In this paper, the flapping of a butterfly’s wings, a minute, very low mass, and quite insignificant action, represents a small initial and remote condition that can lead to major downstream…
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Change Management, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Service Delivery, HR Technology, Portal, Portal Technology, Web 2.0Android versus iPhones
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The web is alive with comparisons of Google Android phones and Apple iPhones. While it seemed for a long time that the iPhone was going to own the market, Android has slowly picked up steam. In fact, Apple may have made a serious miscalculation in tying themselves with the AT&T network and a limited population…
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Balance
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My road bike is a custom titanium racing frame. It was made by a guy in Montana who is probably the cleanest welder of titanium bike frames in the world, the guy’s work is just impeccable. I don’t really need a custom bike – it’s not like my body proportions are weird or anything. I’m…
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Why Can’t We Implement Succession?
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I can’t quite remember when it was, but on a recent Bill Kutik Radio Show, Bill mentioned, “One of the things that drives me crazy, is every survey that comes out, everyone says that Succession Planning is their top priority, and then the following year, the same survey states that nobody implemented it.” Bill’s absolutely…