HR Strategy
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HR Technology Conference Reactions: Social Media Panel
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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…
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HR Technology Conference Reactions: Talent Management Panel
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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…
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Switching Gears
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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. …
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Ruling the Road
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“OMG Wes, how far can you take this theme?” I’m a firm believer that offensive driving is good defensive driving. That’s not to say I’m a jerk on the road. Ok, maybe I’m a little bit of a jerk on…
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Rules of the Other Road
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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…
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Rules of the Road
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Every time I go to another country, I’m amazed at how tame driving in the US actually is. People here obey lane laws, there is a fairly strict code of right of way (even if half the drivers don’t truly…
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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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Apple Versus Samsung
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One of my favorite Star Trek scenes is from Star Trek 4, where Scottie tries talking to the computer. In this classic scene, one of the basic Star Trek futurisms is on display as he tries to get the…
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Annual HR Technology Survey
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There are some things that inform all of us in HR about what is going on with our industry and where things are headed. Of all these useful tools, the annual CedarCrestone HR Technology Survey is one of the top…
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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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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…
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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…
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Real Time Activity Analysis
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Not only am I a geek, I’m a workout geek. The latest geeky gadget I’m lusting over is a Withings E-Scale. For just $165, I can get up in the morning, weigh myself, stand on the scale for a few…
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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…
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Better Measures for Engagement
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Is it Gallup that has the “Do you have a best friend at work” question? We’re so into doing employee surveys to measure employee engagement. They provide us with a statistically validated measurement of our workforce once or twice a…
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Enterprise Solutions, HR Technology, Innovation, Point Solutions, Portal, Service Delivery, Vendor Mgmt, Web 2.0The Technology Does Not Sell
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Years ago, there is a motorola executive was speaking to a group of students. He asks the students to answer a couple of simple questions, “who among you owns a motorola cell phone?”. A small group of students raise their…
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Commonizing Meaning
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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…
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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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Talent Evolution versus Revolution
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If you just bought one of the new 3D TVs that have been on he market for a year or so, i have bad news for you. Its already old technology. Sure, 3D is brand new, and its going to…