{"id":1314,"date":"2010-03-17T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2009-12-26T22:08:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T06:08:44","slug":"blending-food-flavors-and-cross-functional-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"Blending Food Flavors and Cross Functional Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually write about cycling here, but I generally make it no secret that I\u2019m a wannabe foodie<\/a>.\u00a0 ((My other blog is a food blog))\u00a0 Great food is sometimes about simplicity, and other times it\u2019s about depth and flavor combinations.\u00a0 I was recently at Osteria Mozza<\/a> in Los Angeles (( Osteria Mozza is a partnership with celebrity chef Mario Batali)) where I had a squid ink pasta with Dungeness crab, sea urchin, jalapenos, all bathed in great olive oil and sea salt.\u00a0 This is not something I would have put together at home, but it was absolutely splendid.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you get something so wholly unexpected that there is really no way it should be good, but it turns out wonderful.\u00a0 At Bi-Rite Creamery<\/a> in San Francisco, you have Sam\u2019s Sunday, a chocolate ice cream with bergamot olive oil, maldon sea salt and whipped cream.\u00a0 Not sure who thought of the idea of putting olive oil on chocolate ice cream, but it\u2019s about the best thing I\u2019ve had in San Francisco (the sea salt over chocolate might be obvious though).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the point.\u00a0 Sometimes one dimensional, single flavor, simple items are delightful.\u00a0 But sometimes you just have to put things together that nobody really wants and expects to create delightful experiences.\u00a0 HR is a silo, and within HR, we have silos.\u00a0 Payroll hates HR (rightfully so), the comp guys think they are so much more analytical than the rest of us (they are), the talent guys are naturally cross functional but somehow still don\u2019t collaborate well.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, we don\u2019t get good product if we don\u2019t collaborate cross functionally.\u00a0 We are no longer in a world of functional HR.\u00a0 We are in a world of end user, employee and manager delivery.\u00a0 They don\u2019t see us as functional, they see us as HR.\u00a0 They don\u2019t care if we talk to each other or not, because they don\u2019t even know we have silo\u2019d separations.\u00a0 All they care about is that things work seamlessly.\u00a0 Process flows from one to the next.\u00a0 Portals represent all the information they need to know.\u00a0 And call centers and HR business partners are a one stop shop.<\/p>\n

It does not matter that we have our own little internal conflicts, but that\u2019s not usually the barrier.\u00a0 The barrier is just that we\u2019re not used to working with each other.\u00a0 We don\u2019t get in the same room often enough, and when we do it\u2019s the directors, not the practitioners (Directors seem to feel the need to be gatekeepers \u2013 this is counter-productive).\u00a0\u00a0 Enough with the projects that I can\u2019t reach broadly because of political expectations, or can\u2019t talk to someone because they don\u2019t like someone else.\u00a0 You\u2019re leading yourselves to failure, even as you tell me you want to be collaborative and cross functional.<\/p>\n

(This post was written in 2009 with nobody in particular in mind.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I usually write about cycling here, but I generally make it no secret that I\u2019m a wannabe foodie.\u00a0 ((My other blog is a food blog))\u00a0 Great food is sometimes about simplicity, and other times it\u2019s about depth and flavor combinations.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,45,28,10,40,19,47,48,8],"tags":[455,123],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change-management","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-engagement","category-enterprise-solutions","category-topics","category-governance","category-hr-service-delivery","category-strategies","tag-collaboration","tag-cross-functional-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}