In The Know v2.01 Six Key Business-y Links To Help You Think Beyond HR Peopleclick Authoria Merger Jason Corsello on yesterday’s meger. The cats and dogs strategy perfected by Workstream is one way of thinking about industry consolidation. It looks like both parties to this deal needed financial relief. Do You Learn Social? Do You […]
By John Sumser
Leverage is one of the keys to having long lasting influence while holding don an HR management job. Leverage means finding areas where the return for an investment of time is disproportionate. These facets of the craft of HR are not easy to identify. If they were, everyone would have enormous influence (and […]
100104 Zeo I got a ZEO for Christmas. Billed as a ‘sleep coach’, the product is the tip of the iceberg in the next wave of consumer goods. Zeo measures and analyzes your sleep patterns with the general idea that one can take charge of one’s nocturnal productivity. You wear a headband that wirelessly interacts […]
People who work in HR have a difficult time influencing the profession or its direction. It’s just not possible, most of the time, to get a clear view of the big picture from one slot in the trenches. Because of this, most of the big ideas that move through the industry come from consultants, academics, […]
In The Know v1.08 (A weekly list of links to five important ideas)
Tech Impact and End Of Year Lists
Incentives Don’t Motivate
Dan Pink’s TED Video on the surprising science of motivation. Variable incentives do the opposite of what you’d expect if you’re trying to get ‘out of the box’ results. What really motivates contemporary workers are […]
In The Know v1.07 (A weekly list of links to five important ideas)
Tech Impact and End Of Year Lists
Mobile Internet Repor
From Morgan Stanley. Read the whole thing, look at the overview or digest the 700 slide presentation. Mobile is going to transform and keep on transforming your organization, the nature of work, and the fundamental […]
On The Go v1.06 Key Moves In The HR Space
Todd C. McCarty is the new senior VP for human resources at the New York Times Company. McCarty, 43, was senior vice president for global human resources at the Reader’s Digest Association, which he joined in 2008. From 2005 to 2008, he was senior vice president […]
Top 25 Digital HR Influencers. We are starting to be able to measure influence. For most of human history, figuring out how things worked always meant guessing (and asking) about who influenced things. As the world got more crowded and older institutions started to strain, the question of influence became more pertinent. Older hierarchical organizations […]
In The Know v1.06 (A weekly list of links to five important articles)
Shifting Data, Disclosure and Information Norms
1 Billion Spammers Served
Surprising look at the degree to which bots generate spam and the way that spammers’ identities are laundered. The story estimates nearly 2 trillion spam messages since 2004. The process will inevitably invade the career […]
Results and insight come from doing. HR Examiner shows you how its done and who is doing it. An HR operation committed to excellence is a significant competitive advantage. HR Examiner demonstrates that innovation is in the execution and that HR’s ability to find and develop people uniquely positions HR to accelerate their companies’ results. […]
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