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.
 

Startup Fever

A startup is a venture focused on discovering a scalable business model. An enterprise is the execution of a scalable business model. You manage the two differently.
 

The Transformation of HR is Underway

Topics: Big Data, HRExaminer, Industry Analysis, John Sumser, by John Sumser
HR is being transformed while we watch. It’s not going to be a grass-roots endeavor to disrupt the function.
 

When Companies Stop Innovating

The way to tell when a company has stopped innovating is when it starts filing lawsuits to protect the status quo.
 

Human What?

Humans are not capital. What we call things really, really matters.
 

What HR Should Be Asking Part 2

What is becoming possible is so far beyond conventional definitions of analytics that you’ll miss the bus if that’s how you approach the problem.
 

What HR Should Be Asking Part 1

More than a mandate, change is an issue of survival. It’s time to ask new questions.
 

Five Threads III: Data for Other Departments

What used to be delivered in a stale memo is now communicated in the flow/context of other data. It turns out that the more personal the data, the more it sticks.
 

Five Links: Management Disruption

This week: Four articles about the disruption of traditioanl management approaches and one article on the slowness of change.
 

Five Threads II: Integrating Non HR Data

Recruiting, which is always the most competitive of the HR silos is already trying to make sense of a world that violates our preconceptions.