{"id":1869,"date":"2012-09-12T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2012-09-04T12:34:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T20:34:55","slug":"fooling-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1869","title":{"rendered":"Fooling Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve been watching with fascination over the last couple years as countires have rebelled against their governments (Arab Spring in 2011), and American citizens have condemned corruption, and congratulated the populous for rising up and forcing change.\u00a0 It\u2019s fascinating to me because we are so unaware of what has been going on around us for so long.\u00a0 After all, we (as a country) have been supporters of Egypt for decades.\u00a0 The United States has supplied and trained their military, given them aid in various forms, and we have very publicly acknowledged them as strategic allies in the region.\u00a0 Apparently, The United States has never actually cared that a particular leader was corrupt.\u00a0 I mean really, do a Google search for the now famous photo of Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein.\u00a0 Uhh, yeah, Saddam was an ally too.\u00a0 Oh, the guy we took out of Panama, Noriega, him too.\u00a0 Actually, we were the ones who put him in power ((I think, but I\u2019m on a plane and can\u2019t actually do the quick research to verify this)).\u00a0 I mean, come on, we\u2019re all blind to the other side of the coin that we hold in our own hands?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m often surprised at the level of myth that is present in large corporate organizations as well.\u00a0 \u201cOh, no, we can\u2019t possibly expect to have most of our employee transactions go through the portal.\u201d\u00a0 Really, in 2011, you can expect it, and you can even demand it.\u00a0 \u201cOh, no, we can\u2019t outsource payroll, the displacement of control would be devastating to us.\u201d\u00a0 Guys, you still control the rules in the gross to net.\u00a0 You really want to run printers and update your own taxes in the payroll system forever?\u00a0 \u201cOur CEO has demanded that we implement talent management in the next 3 months.\u201d\u00a0 Seriously, this is just the flip side, and you didn\u2019t tell him or her that it\u2019s a bad idea to slam a strategic system in?<\/p>\n

I love myth.\u00a0 Myth tells us about ourselves, our beliefs, and our culture.\u00a0 In every myth, there is a grain of truth, a particle of reason that is steeped in the reality of our companies.\u00a0 But often times, myths get blown out of proportion.\u00a0 Deeply held beliefs that are there for so long that they only are a reality in the minds of the 10 and 20 year company veterans.\u00a0 Unfortunately, those 20 year employees are usually not that current with the as is culture.<\/p>\n

We as HR have indeed started to change.\u00a0 Talent Management was honestly one of the biggest catalysts we have had, in conjunction with an ever improving ability to manipulate data through systems.\u00a0 But I often think that the biggest obstacle of change are ourselves.\u00a0 Talent was supposed to be a revolution, but 5 years or so later, all we have is a bunch of automated processes and new theories.\u00a0 We need to be the HR leaders that force the issue, realize the former state was crap (even if we put it there and supported it), and the future state is where the game will be played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been watching with fascination over the last couple years as countires have rebelled against their governments (Arab Spring in 2011), and American citizens have condemned corruption, and congratulated the populous for rising up and forcing change.\u00a0 It\u2019s fascinating to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1884,"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":[47,8,22,20],"tags":[453,454,444],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance","category-strategies","category-industry-news","category-talent-management","tag-change-management","tag-innovation","tag-talent-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","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=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}