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An Unremitting Devotion to Strategy
Read more: An Unremitting Devotion to Strategy“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” Frank Lloyd Wright Every year, I have a plan. At the beginning of every year, I realize I’ve gained between…
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Explaining Facts and Dimensions
Fact: A turnover rate based on a calculation Dimension: Historical time trend of turnover Fact: The number of heads in your HR database Dimension: The breakdown of headcount by organization Fact: The number of FTE’s in any given job code…
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Pretty is not Useful
Not all of us have fancy business intelligence tools and cool dashboards with great graphs prepared for us in our business environments yet. If we’re lucky, we belong to organizations that have spent millions of dollars figuring out how to…
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Defining SaaS
Since I defined Web 2.0 already, I thought I’d also define SaaS for the masses. Again, this is actually a fairly easy and straightforward technology to put some boundaries around. First of all, I don’t actually like the moniker “Software…
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Defining Web 2.0
It’s probably long past time to write some definitions. In fact, I’ve done this before, probably every time I write a post about Web 2.0. A few years ago, I said that Web 2.0 would not be on the radar…
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Everything in its Place
I write this in the usual place – the airplane. I’m in a window seat, so I’m only surrounded on three sides. The guy in front of me has decided that all the stuff he does not want should not…
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Going Too Far: Social Media Notifications
I don’t know about the rest of you, but pretty much every time I receive a notification about farmville or gangster wars on Facebook, I pretty want to shoot the senders. If they are nieces or nephews, they get some…
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Up In The Air – Packing Theory
Many of the people I know have watched a film called “Up in the Air.” Indeed, I suppose it was a popular file garnering several Oscar nominations. (I have no idea if it won anything as I don’t watch the…
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Up In The Air – Boarding Theory
Many of the people I know have watched a film called “Up in the Air.” Indeed, I suppose it was a popular file garnering several Oscar nominations. (I have no idea if it won anything as I don’t watch the…
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Bill Kutik and the Direction of HR Technology
A recent Bill Kutik Radio Show featured Tom Keebler of Towers Watson. Tom is the Global Practice Leader of the TW HR Service Delivery Practice, and each year they run an HR Technology Survey that is probably the second largest…
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Lessons Learned From Gaming
Ok, I’ll admit that I’ve been playing this on-line game. It’s a MMORPG (I can’t believe I remembered that whole thing) and I play a priest in a guild of mages, fighters, archers, etc. What I find entertaining about it…