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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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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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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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 think I have a thought that is pure genius. This is not one of them. Instead, every now and then I have a thought that simply entertains me for longer than it should. This is definitely one of those. I have not yet figured out the appropriate pronunciation for this. […]
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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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A long time ago, I used to work for ADP doing pre-sales. We had great relationships internally with services and implementation, but nonetheless it always seemed to come up that we didn’t always sell with the full lens of reality. On the other hand, I’d say that we came up with some pretty cool solutions […]
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The other road? What other road? The skinny 2-wheeled road of course. Here is the idea: for a cyclist to be safe when you are cruising down the road at 30 miles per hour, a guy 2 inches to your left, right, back and front, there are a couple basic things to keep in mind. […]
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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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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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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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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 10 rims. I had the spokes weighed and balanced to make sure they were the lightest ones. The spoke nipples (the threaded parts that are basically […]
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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 our brains. Rather, what makes us different as human beings is that we have a great deal of nerves and nerve connections. It is these connections […]
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Saratoga says that large organizations have an average of 7 to 9 hierarchical levels. This means from the top to the bottom, there are 8 layers of management. I’m going to make some assumptions and say that a lot of these organizations (based on the fact that they are mostly older, more mature organizations), are […]
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I’ve complained about information overload before. As we get into lists and networks and blogs, and microblogs, we subject ourselves to information from increasingly diverse sources. Some of these are annoying sources that we wish we didn’t have anything to do with (your nephew’s farmville updates on Facebook), while others are truly valuable if you […]
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