mBlast is showing something really important about the HR idea marketplace. It extends way beyond the confines of our little echo chamber. HR issues are critical in all businesses and the general trade press cover unemployment, recruiting, talent management, training, succession planning, compensation, performance management, labor markets, skills deficits, talent wars and a host of HR issues.
I love Dave Winer. Here’s how he summarizes the internal development process when big companies go after successful upstarts. If you’ve worked for a bigco, you’ve been to this meeting: CTO: We need to kill Facebook. CEO: What will we do? CTO: It can’t just be Facebook. CTO: No one will use that. CEO: It […]
Today, my inbox started its own form of acceleration. I joined Monster’s new BeKnown network last night to stay on top of the flow in social media products. Beknown is Foursquare meets LinkedIn on the Facebook platform. Beknown is professional networking with badges and accomplishments. It’s easy to dismiss the concept as derivative and unnecessary. After all, LinkedIn was there first and turning professional networking into a game could well have unintended consequences. And, who needs another social media time sink? But that sort of misses the point.
Here are two head-turning links from the web this week that will make you step back and think twice. The Web Is Shrinking from Ben Elowitz, CEO of Wetpaint and A Day Without Distraction from Cal Newport.
Check out: The Web Is Shrinking.. Fascinating stats on the overall growth of the web. If you take away Facebook’s astonishing growth rates, the rest of the web is actually shrinking. That means the older style web, rooted in documents and static pages is in decline. The article goes on to make a distinction between […]
Top 25 Online Influencers in Leadership v3 2011 With influence, it is increasingly difficult to see the impact of the old guard because most people use search engines to discover things. That's where online influence comes in, and with it, our attempts to measure and define it. This is the 12th Top 25 Influencers List […]
Everywhere you look, being busy and doing stuff appears to be valued over producing results. Because there is no meaningful educational infrastructure in our industry, some extraordinary myths get repeated: Things like, Planning is impossible in recruiting, Recruiting is local, industry or job specific, or technology solves recruiting problems. Hmmmm.
It’s really pretty amazing that Anna Brekka isn’t on the Top 100 Influencers in HR list yet. The Danish born and bred New Englander is a landmark on the Recruiting map. Since 2003, she’s been involved in the development of the Kennedy Information businesses that ultimately merged with Onrec. If you’ve been to one of those shows over the last decade, you were looking directly at Anna’s work.
Top 25 Online Influencers in Leadership v3 2011 – June 22, 2011 (Bodega Bay, CA) This is the 12th Top 25 Influencers List we’ve published since the project began in late 2009. In that time we’ve drawn a variety of praise, fury, yawns, indifference and curiosity. The lists document a universe that is evolving over […]
John Hollon takes a look at the miserable state of succession planning. Most companies don’t and the number who don’t is increasing. Savvy business leaders have noticed that the person in the succession plan rarely gets the job. That’s generally because succession planning is a theory and succession always happens at the wrong time and in the wrong circumstances. Those damned downturns and upturns in the economy play havoc with the best laid plans of mice and men.
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