It’s really easy to believe that the president of SHRM could be out of touch enough to think that it’s okay to say “HR is nothing less than civil rights and human rights.” HR people are that out of touch with their organizations. They see no conflict between having an external political agenda and ‘having a seat at the strategy table’. Which flavor of human and civil rights do you suppose HR stands for? Are they for or against the human and civil rights of the unborn? Is HR really supposed to be the PC police, extending and policing rights? Are they really supposed to be an organizations arbiter of politics beyond the law?
Thought For The Day: “”In economics there is no free lunch. We are going to attempt to have a lunch that to some extent we’re going to pay for later.” –Warren Buffet on the for sale online level of inflation that will be a part of the recovery Why I Sued Google (and Won) Part […]
Thought For The Day: The society is more bankrupt than the financial system. What battered newsrooms can learn from Stewart’s CNBC takedown1) Great research trumps good access to the powerful 2) The American public is mad as hell right now, so why isn’t the mainstream media? 3) Tear down this wall…of pretending that the media itself isn’t […]
Thought For The Day: Fail fast, fail often, get important stuff done. Retweetability Index A measure of your inherent hipness. Like me, you are probably not. The Cult of Done Manifesto Print this out; paste it on your wall. Fail fast, fail often, gut stuff that matters done. Employees should be masters of their own […]
Thought For The Day: “America is not at the bottom of another economic crisis; we are at the crossroads of the future. We can’t stop the boomers’ new vision of austerity, nor can we stop the coming energy crisis. Backstopping de-leveraging today will only create new financial pressures that will once again burst when […]
Thought For The Day: “Creative people don’t want to “do it right.” They want to share the excitement you had when you yourself didn’t know how to do it right. Creative people are unconsciously attracted by the parts that make no sense. And Web 2.0 was full of those.” –Bruce Sterling What An Antitrust Case […]
Thought For The Day: See the Sourcing Is Dead Debate on RBC A History of HR Standards Bookmark this set of articles. It’s the story of the effort to create an integrated standard for HR Systems interoperability. While the project made some headway, few people have a real stake in a positive outcome. The results, […]
Social Networking Software: Hunting, Gathering, Farming, Manufacturing, Interacting (Feb 27, 2009) You can predict the evolution. Just like the rest of civilization, access to and relationships with the members of the millions of social networks will evolve along traditional lines: Hunting, Gathering, Farming, Manufacturing, Interacting. That’s how the web grew up; that’s how the human […]
Social Networking Software: Consolidate and Fragment (Feb 26, 2009) By now, you’re familiar with the fact that Facebook is growing at 1 kazillion percent per month; that MySpace is plateauing and that LinkedIn is struggling to feel like a community.. It’s easy to lose site of the nearly 1 million small social networks* on Ning […]
Thought For The Day: “Social networks will evolve like the rest of human culture: Hunting, Gathering, Farming, Manufacturing, Interacting." Beginning Your Career with Sodexo WebinarWith a strong Twitter presence and a value laden webinar offering, the folks at Sodexo are pioneers in 21st Century online recruiting. New HR Marketer ReportVendor Trends in 2009. Well […]
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