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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. In this case, Bhatti was a Christian, and (to his detriment) was outspoken about it. …
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The Butterfly Effect
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In 1972, Edward Lorenz wrote a paper called “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?” In this paper, the flapping of a butterfly’s wings, a minute, very low mass, and quite insignificant action, represents a small initial and remote condition that can lead to major downstream…
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Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Technology, Innovation, Portal Technology, Web 2.0Meaningful Experiences in Web 2.0
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I’ve complained about information overload before. As we get into lists and networks and blogs, and microblogs, we subject ourselves to information from increasingly diverse sources. Some of these are annoying sources that we wish we didn’t have anything to do with (your nephew’s farmville updates on Facebook), while others are truly valuable if you…
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Immediacy without Details
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I’ll have to be honest – I’m having a really hard time with some of the new technology. I’m supposed to be a technologist and be up on all the latest stuff. But I find myself at odds with some of the theory and philosophy. There seems to be an emerging sense of immediacy and…
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5 Year Post
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Can you believe it’s been five years? I recently read my first post and actually thought it was an ok analysis of HRO vendors at the time. Pretty funny to me how much things have changed, but also how much I’ve learned both through work and the blog. I spent 2009 writing much less than…
