Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “human resource”
I am ignorant. I’m not stupid. I’m not slow. I’m just ignorant. I’m ignorant of what HR practitioners go through every day. I don’t know what they hear from their bosses. I don’t know what they hear from their direct reports. I don’t know what they hear from other employees. I do know what I hear from my HR buddies. …
Anthony, Anthony, Anthony….you twit. Your entire life, you work to achieve a position of stature and influence, overcoming what had to be a tough playground experience as a child, only to betray yourself in the most ironic of ways considering your surname. TWICE. Weiner is certainly not the first powerful man to succumb to the temptations of the flesh -hell, even now he’s sharing the spotlight …
I just finished reading Clayton Christensen’s newest book call “How Will You Measure Your Life” (my money quotes from the book can be found here.) In that book he reintroduced one of his marketing concepts called “jobs-to-be-done.” Originally discussed by Christensen in the context of how consumers decide on products, Christensen posited that customers don’t buy products so much as they “hire” a product to …
I am a big fan of crowd sourcing. Ever since I read Surowiecki’s book “The Wisdom of Crowds” I’ve tried to incorporate larger, more diverse groups into my normal process for solving problems. I’d say in most cases it works pretty well. For those of you unfamiliar with crowd sourcing (or using the wisdom of the crowd) it is: the …
Statistical analysis, usually, seeks to draw conclusions about a population by using a sample that represents that population. It’s easier to do the math and analysis on 700 people than say, 7 billion people. Through some complicated math on the sample we can feel confident (given a range of error) that the population will act like our sample. We use …
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 …
