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The Permanent Record
Read more: The Permanent RecordPerhaps it was because I’m Chinese American and my Chinese parents were rather crazed about education. I did graduate high school with a 4.2 GPA and considered myself an academic failure (still do in fact). My parents used to threaten us that our grades and other bad things we did would go on our permanent…
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Tri-athletes: Transitions
Tri-athletes spend a lot of time working on their transitions. How many seconds does it take to get out of the water and into cycling shoes, and then onto the bike. How many seconds does it take to get off the bike and into running shoes. What can you prepare ahead of time so that…
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Tri-athletes: Skills
It is not real secret that cyclists the world over hold tri-athletes in general contempt. The general consensus is that when a tri-athlete is on the bike, their bike skills are so poor, they are a general menace to other cyclists and to themselves. I’ll give you an example from my own experience this weekend:…
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Changing Governance Based on Complexity
So I suppose first and foremost, I’ll need to admit that I didn’t even read nearly the entire article I happen to be referring to in this post. I’m really much more of a decision support guy that a decision-making science guy. I’m not sure I really understand the total complexities that define the differences…
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Talentism.com is Back
This is just a general announcement for those who may have taken talentism.com off their feed readers (like I did). This is one of the smartest and thoughtful blogs in the blogosphere, and I’m so extremely peased he’s back after a too long sabatical. For readers of systematicHR, if you like my blog, you’ll love…
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Engagement Overkill?
No pun intended. But I’m troubled and I don’t get it. This morning the acting CFO over at Freddie Mac committed suicide. He was brought in after the bailout, so theoretically he should not have a ton of direct responsibility over the causes of the current economic crisis. People seem to be committing suicide at…
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Symphony: Scope of Sight
From where the conductor stands, she sees and hears everything. This is the perfect place from which to direct and convey small changes in vision. The conductor is perfectly situated so that everyone can see her, and she can alternatively see everyone back. If the conductor was anywhere else, she might hear one section louder…
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Collaborative Teams
04-20 I’ll admit that as much as I talk about web 2.0 and collaboration networks, collaboration is simply not a set of tools. Collaboration can be made more efficient with tools and tools can enable certain types of collaboration, but in the end, I think collaboration is about culture and governance. In my opinion, collaboration…
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Symphony: Individual Performers
04-15 In a symphony, there are no individual performers. There can’t be. The whole point of a symphony is individual elements coming together to form a single cohesive vision of piece of music. Violins all coordinate to execute in perfect synchronicity and unison, blending to create a single voice in which none of them stand…
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Internal Succession Plans
In the recent explosive growth of talent management, performance and recruiting always seemed to be the drivers, but compensation administration and succession planning always seemed close behind. I’ve always thought that recruiting and performance would level off as most organizations purchased and implemented modules and moved onto comp and succession. Unfortunately, it seems I’ve been…
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Symphony: A Light Touch
One of the secrets of good conducting is to have a light touch. What actually happens is when a conductor tries to force movements or over-emphasize and overpower the music, the symphony as a whole will generally rebel and do their own thing. The conductor’s job is to simply convey their own vision for the…