It’s easy to build an organization of rules embedded in software. While the rules ensure consistency, they are the enemy of innovation. This is the answer to the question "Where is the innovation in Recruiting?"
There’s a lot of engagement snake oil being sold around our industry. While there is some interesting academic work that shows the possibility of broad based team synergies to turbocharge organizational performance, most engaement projects are designed to improve scores on employee satisfaction surveys. Most engagement projects are really fancy happiness pills.
Things are changing very rapidly. Moore’s law, the stubborn force beneath the reinvention of the planet, continues its relentless doubling. As learners, we need to know how to figure out what to learn and how to learn it.
Industry stalwarts cry that if practitioners would only do this right, they’d get better results. That’s what academics do when their ideas perform well in the lab but go feral in the wild.
Work-life was much simpler in the last century. Information work entailed following instructions and procedures, and logical analysis. Today’s concept work is improvisation. Learning leaders must deal with situations that aren’t in the rule book.
There are plenty of situations where that’s simply not possible. Sometimes, the situation is that you can’t plan ahead. That’s where agile approaches shine.
The Annual HR Technology Conference, held this year in Chicago on October 8, 9 and 10, is mecca for HR tech folks. A blistering stream of events, influencers, meetings and parties, the conference is ground zero for the tech products that shape the face of HR.
New ways of working and new ways of thinking about work are everywhere. And yet, no one in the organization is responsible for these tools and techniques. Should HR become the epicenter of The New Architecture of Work?
Whether it’s administrative paperwork, project plans or performance objectives, gamification will be used to influence the way work gets done. Gamification is the key to measuring and understanding work pacing and flow in information work.
Thinking about legacy is important… maybe even critical… whether or not you take action in regards to your legacy… well, that decision has to fit you. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says or does… your legacy (or anti-legacy) is yours.
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