Governance
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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…
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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…
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Still Grappling With Data Security
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Today I was going through airport security with my wife. I got randomly selected for a screening, which consisted of wiping my hands with a cottonish fabric and sending it through the scanner that detects explosives or something like that. …
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Communications, Engagement, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Strategy and Technology, Service DeliveryGlobal or Regional: HR Service Delivery Should Always Be Perfect
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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…
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How To Give All The Wrong Answers
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As per my last post,at the end of 2012, I was doing a family vacation in Taiwan. Being with family for 2 weeks is quite an expose into mannerisms that each of us have. I was particularly intrigued by my…
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How To Ask All The Wrong Questions
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At the end of 2012, I was doing a family vacation in Taiwan. When I say family vacation, I mean not just my wife and me, but my brother’s family along with my parents, visiting all of the senior members…
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All Posts, Branding, Collaboration, Communications, Governance, HR Technology, Social, Social and Gamification, Social TalentSocial Trust, Authority and Contributorship
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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…
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Systems Deployment for the 99%
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Believe it or not, when it comes to personal technology, I’m not in the 1%. Come to think of it, I’m pretty darn sure I’m not in any 1%, but that’s not quite the point. I finally got a new…
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All Posts, Engagement, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Vendor Mgmt, VendorsCedar Crestone HR Technology Survey: Create a Winning HR Function
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All too often, I get an industry report to read and end up saying to my colleagues, “wow this is crap.” Case in point, at the end of 2012, I got a widely read industry report that rated a halfway…
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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…
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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…
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Fooling Ourselves
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I’ve been watching with fascination over the last couple years as countires have rebelled against their governments (Arab Spring in 2011), and American citizens have condemned corruption, and congratulated the populous for rising up and forcing change. It’s fascinating to…
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Creating Information from Knowledge from Collaboration
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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…
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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. …
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Decision effectiveness
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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…
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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,…
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Nerves and Decision Governance
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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…
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Merge, Outsource, Re-merge
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Imagine this. You’re fixing your house, and you take down a few walls to reconfigure how the place looks – it’s a bit more open, you can see more, put more people in it when you entertain. While you’re at…
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Serendipity versus Decision Support
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Would I be where I am today if I had all the facts every time? I’m actually confident that if it were up to me, I would be digging ditches for a living somewhere (not to demean ditch diggers). Let’s…
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Core HR is not a Hub
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I came across this quite a few years ago as we started to tinker around with core HR systems needing to integrate with more systems than just payroll and benefits, and as analytics engines started to take off en masse. …