Talent Management, Bureaucracy–and Cats?

HR professionals often compare their job to herding cats, but if you worked for Her Majesty’s postal service a few decades ago, you might have meant it quite literally.
 

Making Smarter Things

The Solid conference is a deeper exploration of what’s being called the Internet of Things (IoT) or, more recently, the Internet of Things and Humans (IoTH).
 

Five Links: Science and Human Behavior

This week’s links feature new ways to think about the future, a manual of cognitive science, the FTC on the ever changing data brokerage business, an inventory of today’s internet and an ode to wearable computing.
 

Sumser Interview: 2014 Job Board Summit North America

At the end of the month, I’ll be joining a fascinating group of presenters and professionals at the JobG8 conference in Orlando.
 

Five Links: Technology and Consequences

This week’s links look at the consequences of technology and how to manage them.
 

Five Links: Non HR Tech Companies Entering the Market

This week’s links take a look at tech companies that are traditionally consider to be ‘not HR’.
 

The New Workplace

Topics: Futures, HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, Jay Cross, by Jay Cross
Six years ago few people believed that informal learning made much of a difference.
 

Five Links: Disruption

This week’s links are a reminder that technology is tearing its way through our universe. It happens fast, takes no prisoners and has no guaranteed winners.
 

Engagement: Lies, Damned Lies and WTF II

The data on whether employees are engaged says that the answers are Yes, No and Sometimes.
 

Five Links: Resisting Change

This week’s balance is three pieces about the way we look at the future and two about our resistance.