Population Distribution Diagrams: Definitions (Nov 19, 2008)Population Distributions Defined There’s a pretty length series of discussions about Population Distribution Diagrams (PDDs) in the archives. (There’s also a list of links at the end of this piece). In a nutshell, PDDs are graphs that show how a group of people are distributed along the lines of […]
(Nov 18, 2008) The Problem Hiring is almost always reactive, transactional and shortsighted. Even the best hiring environments rarely consider the aggregate impact of an individual hire. Relatively few organizations provide guidance beyond platitudes about the strategic meaning of any given position. Before automation and the various management technologies of the 80s and 90s, service […]
(September 04, 2008) Thanks for patiently wading through the descriptions of Population Pyramids over the past week. I am struggling to make the idea simple enough for popular consumption. I think that population distribution maps have the potential to be very useful tools in the development of Recruiting Strategy, among other things. Now that we […]
(September 03, 2008) Here’s an example of a population pyramid (Canada, 1961). The left side is a bar graph that describes the percentage of men in a given age bracket. The right side describes the distribution of women by age. The term “pyramid” refers to the shape of the diagram. You can see that […]
(August 28, 2008) Conversation is a difficult standard to achieve online in a public forum. The crossfire reciprocal shouting model in which each commentator is an advocate for a preexisting point of view is good entertainment. It’s really bad conversation. There are not many examples of nuanced movement towards a shared understanding of a new […]
(August 27, 2008) I am going to stick with the pyramid idea just a little longer. The theme is so embedded in our world view that it shapes the way we see, imagine and execute our possibilities. The "Recruiting Funnel", where masses of candidates are winnowed down to a select few, is an example of […]
(August 26, 2008) For the entire history of the human race, with virtually no exceptions. the age distribution of population has had the shape of a pyramid. As people get older, there are fewer of them. The pyramid shape means that there are few old people and lots of young people. The older that people […]
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