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The Pain Threshold
Read more: The Pain ThresholdLance 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 (San Diego I think), we were riding a horrifically fast pace, many of us in…
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Branding and Employment
How can you create strong employer brands in the face of changing economic and business environments? Sometimes creating and maintaining a positive employer brand are uphill battles because of business decisions operational managers make. Other times, employer brands are easily created and maintained. The couple of examples that come to mind are Nike and 3M. …
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Hewitt’s Financial Results – What Do They Mean?
Hewitt’s very public financial difficulties continue today, days after announcing quarter-end September 30, 2006 financial results. It is not my intention to single out Hewitt by writing about them again. Rather, as the recognized leader in HRO, Hewitt can be viewed as the industry bellwether and can provide insight into the dynamics of the industry.…
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Employees Define Employee Satisfaction
The Boggs Learning Chronicle blog highlighted a survey of top ten employee satisfaction indicators as defined by 2.2 million employees. Granted, I didn’t think much of the survey and my comments are below. Obviously what employees think is important is not what I think is important. All said, I virtually ignored their top 3 concerns,…
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Protecting Trade Secrets and Engagement
Jay Shepard is one of my favorite new bloggers – a bit because he’s actually interesting, but also because (like Thomas at Vendorprisey) Jay makes up great phrases like “gruntled employees.” In Jay’s recent post on protecting trade secrets (Jay is an attorney) it occurred to me that most HR professionals really don’t care much…
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Restoring Trust
As a leader, can you restore trust that has been lost? Knowledge@Wharton has a wonderful article including s research stuffy regarding the restoration of trust. Basically as I stated yesterday (and through the SHRM article) “To a large extent, people fail to recognize that it is not our values and beliefs that build trust,” says…
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Trust and Engagement
Do your employees trust you? More importantly, do your employees trust your boss? Even better, do your employees trust your executive team? What goes into trust and why is it important? Trust is critical at a couple of levels. First, trust for the executive team is crucial. The belief in integrity by the executive team…
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Human Resources and the Mid-Term Election
Today is Election Day!!! After today, we will no longer be bombarded with political ads slinging mud right out of our TV sets. After today, most of the nightly news will go back to the typical and sensationalist news of the day. I really won’t miss the political mudslinging, but election season is always an…
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Some Things Should Never Be Outsourced?
I’m not talking about the highly transactional stuff like payroll, benefits, or technology. In general, there’s a huge return on some of the administrative and transactional processes. What we’re really talking about are the strategic activities, but even that gets a bit gray, as I personally think that just about anything can be outsourced. Take…
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SOA: SAP versus Oracle
SAP and Oracle have been taking different approaches to service oriented architecture (SOA) and this article by Mark Brunelli pinpoints some of those differences: Experts point out that Oracle is focusing its SOA efforts on building an open infrastructure with its Java-based Fusion middleware offering. Alternately, SAP, with its NetWeaver application platform, is focusing its…
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Letting Leaders Recharge
Jim Hollincheck at the BlogERP site wrote an interesting piece about sabbaticals and the effect of knowledge workers burning out. As with most people, I first learned of sabbaticals when I was in college and couldn’t take a course I wanted with the selected professor because he decided to “go on sabbatical.” While it was…