“A mind is unique in the world for its infinity of ideas, for it can be used to think about almost anything in a million different ways. Any act that deliberately confines a mind to a singular way of seeing the world can not be acting for good.”
Narrative visualization in HR is the discipline of discovering and communicating your fundamental story. In business and HR your story is your framework for decision making and one that relies more and more on insights derived from visualization of your big data.
Big Data Featured: In order to capture the value of this extraordinary new flow of data, you have to fundamentally rethink your worldview and assumptions. We need better questions. John Sumser has crisscrossed the U.S. and hopped the pond to London to talk with the foremost thinkers on Big Data. Read his articles Big Data and Where Do Ideas Come From to get up to date on how Big Data will reshape HR.
Jason Lauritsen joins The HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board with his article What if HR was Outlawed?. Heather Bussing pens 3 Magic Words and John Sumser has 5 Links: Name of Post. Enjoy.
“Most of the world’s knowledge is in our pockets. The answer to almost any question is a google search away. So being able to remember stuff is not so important any more.” – Heather Bussing
In this week’s feature Personal Questions: Women & Work, Heather Bussing pens an inspiring article about her experience in business as a woman, and how we might all approach our work in a way that isn’t constrained by gender or business as usual. It’s a great story with the kind of insight regular readers expect from Heather.
I’m filling in for John Sumser on this week’s 5 links. Here are some additional resources to my piece on Monday, Personal Questions: Women and Work. Thank you for all your comments, shares and tweets. Your attention and kind words are precious gifts.
It’s time to rethink our time, our work, our days, our values, and how we want to spend our lives. It’s time to design our relationships with our fears, our jobs, our families, our companies, and each other, in richer and more interesting ways.
The idea that great people should be retained in their jobs for a long time is the exact opposite of growth and innovation. In Retaining Water, John Sumser opens this week’s Employee Retention double feature by illustrating how a highly successful retention system has backfired on the U.S. Federal Government. In his follow up piece, Retaining Walls, John explores the risks of retention programs in greater depth.
To show that someone is an independent contractor, you generally have to give independent contractors discretion over how they perform their work; they tend to use their own equipment, tools and resources; and they usually work by the project instead of for an indefinite period.
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