Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Innovation”
In the car business, it can be difficult to get names of people. If I just had a name, I can easily stalk find people. I can call them at work and directly ask for them (pretending to be their girlfriend, sister, anything…) if I just had a name. I’ve been known to do some pretty sneaky things to get …
Hey HR – want to get more innovation out of your employees? Want to amp up the creativity index in your staff. Look no further than a 7-year old. The Brainstorming Session I’ve been a part of many brainstorming sessions. Some good. Some bad. I always like how they start with “There are no bad ideas.” Unfortunately, yeah, there are. …
When it comes to employment branding, video is one of the smartest plays you can make related to content to push out to prospective candidates. Writing is hard – so a corporate blog can often go dark after about 20 well-intentioned posts. Nothing kills your brand worse than an abandoned blog (Look Sarah, their last post was in March! Are …
Earlier in the week here on FOT, Tim Sackett wrote about change and the tendency of people and organizations to resist change, particularly when they sense that making significant changes to a given practice or process requires a more fundamental shift in thinking and perhaps presents a threat to a status quo that they have invested in heavily. Tim argues, …
(Why should Sackett, Boese and Dunn get all the sports connections to HR?) HR wants to be relevant. HR wants a seat at the table. HR wants to be part of the business. But HR doesn’t want the ball. They want to pass it to the next person and not be responsible for the loss. And by default – they …
‘And you shut up! Who are you, anyway? Sitting there – telling people what to do. You can’t hunt, you can’t sing – ’ ‘I’m chief. I was chosen.’ ‘Why should choosing make any difference? Just giving orders that don’t make any sense – ’ ‘Piggy’s got the conch.’ ‘That’s right – favour Piggy as you always do – ’ …
Wouldn’t it be nice to know that for once, things will be staying the same for a while? I think about business in prior decades – the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Most business folks could get up every day and know that things will be pretty much like they were yesterday (not counting the War years, of course.) Most …
Last September, Stephen Elop, former Head of Business Development at Microsoft, was hired into Nokia as their new turnaround CEO. My guess is that he took the last few months to assess the true challenges he was looking at. They are steep, make no mistake. Apple changed the mobile game and now owns the high-end market, growing from 25% market …
Earlier in the week the FOT crew (well actually just Tim Sackett and I), took to publicly lamenting our respective SHRM 2011 Annual Conference presenter proposal rejections. While getting rejected is never fun (and if you believe Sackett, is an entirely foreign experience), from the carnage of said rejections, I noticed something really interesting in one of the comments on …
Since @timsackett and @steveboese and @kris_dunn use sports analogies to talk HR, I thought I’d try to slide in and sit at the cool kids’ table with my own little sports discussion. Defense is about not losing… What I mean by that is anecdotally I see HR as a function that “protects” the company. From monitoring legal issues, making sure people fill …
