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Why Your Company Should Work at Play

Posted in Economy, Innovation, Leadership, Organizations, Uncategorized on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Why do our organizations tend to be so sober and serious? With how many people at your company would you feel comfortable acting a bit silly or sharing your biggest dreams and boldest ideas? What happens to us, as we journey through adolescence and adulthood that makes us less inclined to play?
Richard Florida was among [...]

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Credit Card Companies: Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You

Posted in Current Affairs, Economy, Human Resources, Organizations, Talent Management, Technology, Web 2.0 on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It seems everybody these days knows more about what’s going on inside the heads of our employees than we do.  Whether Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Friendfeed, Diigo, Del.icio.us – name a web 2.0 company and they probably have better data on your employees’ skills, preferences, interests, worries, etc. than you do.
Credit companies also seem to [...]

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If You Ever Questioned Whether Talent Matters…

Posted in Current Affairs, Economy, Human Resources, Organizations, Talent Management on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

According to Simon Johnson, former IMF Chief Economist and MIT professor, a showdown is brewing between major banks like Goldman Sachs and the Obama Administration. This showdown, Simon says, not only places in question the federal government's ability to control these banks, but also poses a real threat to the nation's economic recovery.

The issue?  Caps [...]

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Your Mission (Should Be): To Change the World

Posted in Economy, Leadership, Organizations on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Originally uploaded by /maple
I've been on a "mission" kick lately, which is a bit unlike me, since I tend to be pretty pragmatic and facts/data-oriented when it comes to how I approach HR.
At the same time, the world is in flux – millions are losing their jobs and companies are [...]

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How Do You Keep Employees Up When Everything is Looking Down?

Posted in Economy, Human Resources, Organizations on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I'm in the middle of Daniel Ariely's Predictably Irrational and having great fun with it. 

Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT, so he is a bit of a misfit among economists. He doesn't believe that humans behave in a strictly rational (and easily mathematically "modelable") fashion. Rather, we're quirky. Our [...]

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WWGKD? – What Would Guy Kawasaki Do?

Posted in Economy, Human Resources, Leadership, Organizations, Talent Management on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The announcement that Best Buy will be offering a (pretty sweet) buyout to 4,000 employees reminded me of a recent Guy Kawasaki post on the "art" of laying people off. Below is a link with some select bullets from his original post.
  
While I would dispute a number of his arguments (for example, the idea that [...]

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Recession-Proof Competencies

Posted in Economy, Human Resources, Organizations, Talent Management on December 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This is by no means the world's most widely read blog (partly by design), but I do know there is a core group of fellow bloggers who tune in regularly to hear what random things are on my mind.  I, of course, try to return the favor.
Right now, I'd like to submit a small challenge [...]

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SaaS in a recession

Posted in Economy, Talent Management, Technology on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From bocavermelha-l.b.'s outstanding photostream 

Another interesting little article on the opportunity and threat the economic downturn presents to SaaS vendors.  It will no doubt be exciting to watch what happens in the talent management space as the U.S. and the world work their way through these tough times.

Link here

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Freakonomics on Human Capital

Posted in Economy, Talent Management on December 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Another interesting article here, this one from Stephen Dubner.

Link to article

While I don't agree that a background as a "quant" on Wall Street qualifies someone to cure cancer, it is great to see people outside of HR appreciating the immense value that can be gleaned from putting former Wall Streeters to work in new jobs [...]

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Marketing in a downturn

Posted in Economy, Talent Management, Technology on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I randomly heard this story on NPR's All Things Considered earlier this evening. 

Link to abstract and audioThey make some great points in the four minutes of audio, including the counter-intuitive nature of marketing spend – since marketing budgets are most often calculated as a % of revenue, companies tend to cut back on marketing when [...]

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