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.
As we learn to ask the right questions and learn to ask the ones we think are impossible, the magic of measuring will become clearer. Meanwhile, tons of companies will be aggregating the data about our employees and offering to sell it back to us.
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.
We’re wired to transmit information from brain to brain. And, we can reprogram the fundamentals.
This was a part of an amazing talk given by Shawn Achor as the opening keynote for the Ultimate Software User Conference.
“Measure twice, cut once” is the way that carpenters deal with this obvious fact. No system of measurement is precise enough to guarantee sound decision making from a single glance.
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.
The world is changing fast. This week’s links point to the global movement against high executive pay, complexity thinking, the importance of context in visualization, pay for play ethics and a review of last week’s Tapestry conference.
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