Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Innovation”
Seat at the table. There. I said it. And it’s the last place you need to be to have real impact on your company. In fact, everyone sitting at the table needs to push back and get the hell out of the room. Each person at that table is fooling themselves. Missing real problems and solving problems that don’t really …
As I write this, I’m killing time in the SFO airport…it’s one of my favorites with tech ads and gadgets and amenities to keep a digital freak like myself satisfied. I flew out yesterday to attend the first mRecruitingcamp. Let’s have a moment of full disclosure… I was offered a comp ticket by the conference and I acted on …
To be successful HR needs to move from the department of enforcement to the department of corrections. I’m cereal folks, super cereal. HR needs to become the department that allows mistakes and then helps correct them rather than the department that creates rules and regulations to ensure no one makes mistakes in the first place. I know some of you …
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 …
