The intersection between HR strategy and HR technology
I’m pretty hopeless in most games. There are always levels, other people to compete against, and too many tasks to get done. Inevitably, I run out of patience before I reach the top state, or I realize I’m not very good at the game and I just give up due to incompetence. The wonderful thing […]
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Every year we’re trying to figure out what’s next. 7 years ago, I started hearing about social HR everywhere, but the market really wasn’t ready. Every HR organization thought that social was a bad idea, with personal privacy challenges looming to kill any social enterprise initiatives. 2 years ago, we all took for granted that […]
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I think it was back in 2004 that I was writing about “DavesNextMove.com.” PeopleSoft had just gotten acquired by Oracle, and Dave Duffield was sitting around with $1B but no job. At the same time, SuccessFactors was building up some pretty good steam, about to start having bad implementations because their stuff was so much […]
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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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One of my favorite all time scenes in movies is in Star Trek 4 (They Voyage Home). Scotty and McCoy are hunting a local professor to get some plexy glass, and strike a deal to get it for free. The deal? Give the professor the chemical formula for “transparent aluminum.” In order to do this, […]
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Forget about Google. One of the world’s favorite sites has got to be LMGTFY.com. “Let me google that for you.” With the wondrous world of the internet and ubiquitous information, ubiquitous access through our mobile devices, and ubiquitous connectivity, whenever someone asks a dumb question in email, you get to just send them back a […]
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“There’s this idea of the jocks vs. nerds thing. That sort of ended when the nerds won decisively. We now live in this era where your big summer tentpole movies can be hobbits and minor Marvel Comics superheroes and boy wizards. If you had told me when I was in junior high there would be […]
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There was a long time ago I could pretty much build my bike from scratch. Yeah, I could assemble everything, that’s easy. Putting on gears, lacing up spokes onto wheels, getting the brakes on. I even used to pick out the individual ball bearings that went into my bikes. Then came a day when the […]
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So I had to upgrade my cell phone contract. I used to be on this thing where I had a bucket of minutes and text messages to use, and now I’m on exactly the opposite. I have unlimited phone and text and about 10 GB of data I can use every month. It really points […]
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