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Commonizing Meaning
Read more: Commonizing MeaningI 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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A Workflow Primer
No content post today – I just wanted to introduce the readership to a resource I found. Actually, it’s an Oracle workflow primer, but it’s only chapter 1, and therefore a great overview on the topic in general. I found…
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Retaining Your Senior Talent
I (and many others) keep talking about the major reductions in senior level talent coming our way. Retirees will make up an increasing percentage of our population in the coming decades, and there are too many large shoes to fill. …
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Performance Management Integration
Jim Holincheck recently wrote about some findings from HR Executive’s survey of performance management practices. I’m not surprised that performance management is still on the rise – undoubtedly it will be on the rise for quite some time as new…
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TCO and the Line Manager
In the jobs I had before I started my own business, I always felt an important part of my responsibility was to develop the people who reported to me. In fact, I always went a step beyond and looked to…
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6 Traits of the Next Generation HR Leader
(A response to Jason Corsello) Usually I would say rebuttal instead of response, but Jason has this one right on. If you don’t read his site, start now by going there to see his comments on all of the below. …
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TCO: A Case Study
Some time ago, a fortune 500 company acquired another fortune 500 company. At the time, the acquiring company was a PeopleSoft shop for payroll and HRIS. The acquired company had been outsourcing payroll and accessed a hosted HRIS system for…
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Peter Drucker on the Manager’s Major Problem
What’s the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless ad doing with great efficiency what should not be…
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Peter Drucker on the Manager’s Job
What is the manager’s Job? It is to direct the resources and efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite – and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in…
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Creating Strategy
I’ve always thought of strategy as a single, focused concept. The strategy might be philosophical or there might be a concrete goal at the end of it. For example, philosophical strategies are things like “Employer of Choice.” You probably have…
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The Keys to Employee Motivation
At systematicHR, we sit around talking about (reading about) ideas like employee engagement and employer brand a lot. These are quite simple concepts to understand, but actually quite difficult to implement and achieve successfully. In terms of talent, the employer…