HR Strategy
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Perspective and Benchmarking
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In my eyes, there are three components of being from California. First, you must always be on a diet. Second, you must always bee too fat. Third, you must have a therapist (shrink for those of you in New York),…
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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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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…
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Recruiting Engagement
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So, I used to write this blog for me. Honestly, I could have cared less that anyone was reading it. It has been a great exercise for almost 6 years – forcing me to continuously thing and read and research. …
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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…
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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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Please Don’t Do It
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I have to admit that I spend more time in airports than I would like to admit. This means that I spend some time in airport bathrooms where a very disturbing event happens with unbelievable frequency. I’d say that about…
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HR Technology Deployments
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I love it when consultants come in and talk to you about all the things you need to do around an implementation. Obviously your implementer is going to do all the normal things around table configuration and testing, but they…
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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…
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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. …
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Behavioral Non-Interviews
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Remembering back to college admissions days (which many of you might have kids going through that right now), one of the best parts of the whole process is doing the college tour thing and doing interviews at the various prospective schools. For 4 year…
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Stop Selling Apps: SaaS is a Service
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Increasingly, I’m seeing organizations change their buying habits, at least in theory. Vendor selections are no longer the total domain of functional requirements as they once were. We don’t care nearly as much about feature functionality and our ability to…
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Engagement is Economic Theory
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I was having a recent conversation with John Sumser where we discussed my need to be an engaged employee. Indeed, I’m that guy who is almost always engaged because I honestly love my work. I’m one of those unique people…
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The Lowest Common Denominator
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I’ve been trying to sell people on the Google Android operating system for smart phones lately. I’m not sure that it’s really about the Android versus the iPhone for me – more likely it’s the fact that I’m a long…
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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…
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Web 2.0 for HR Call Centers
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Call centers traditionally have a couple of major technologies sitting in them for HR. We will usually have some sort of knowledgebase that contains access to policies, procedures, and prompts to all sorts of questions and answers. At the same…
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Most of us are Ants
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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…
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Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Technology, Innovation, Portal Technology, Web 2.0Meaningful Experiences in Web 2.0
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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…