Executives expect Agile results, but too few executives and managers realize the organization change necessary to support Agile results. Agile without …
Fast Start — Big data and better workers
New research with large data, known as Big Data, are creating big problems for human resource s (HR) and HR professionals.
Fast Start — Is HR the new IT?
Fast Start conversation: Policies, procedures, forms, transactions, compliance and administrative oversight. Sound like your human resources (HR) department? Many of those …
Social Media: Fight, Flight, or Friend — organization development presentation
Below are the slides from today’s Shifting Role of Organization Development in Business conference in St. Louis. To view presentation within this …
Fast Start — Why we hate HR
Fast Start Conversation: Human Resources has a bad rap. Strategic business partners? Seat at the table? HR people, in most instances, …
What Steve Jobs reminds those in technology
Steve Jobs retired last week. Steve Jobs had incredible impact as Apple CEO as well as a cultural icon whose products re-shaped …
Fistful of beans 08/24/2011
Three of things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. Bored People Quit — Rands in Response blog People …
Motivation management is resource management
In this age of cheaper-faster-better resource management is critical to organization survival. The resource that poses the biggest organization management challenge, …
Fistful of beans 12/29/2010
Five things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. Speed to Market: Increasing Knowledge Velocity — Chief Learning Officer …
Your star performer creates employee resentment
At school, model students can shine above the rest. Held as scholarly exemplars, with honor society and class rank to herald …
The intervention as organizational rehab
Until knowledge, skills, and abilities are both individual and team success, the organization intervention seems less an option than a core competence.
We need to intervene before we lose even more of your organization’s ability and desire to achieve both individual, team, and organization goals.
We should revisit what has become the noise surrounding essential knowledge, ability, skills, and competencies organizations need from people ready to lead.
Business as a foreign language for HR professionals
Today in Human Resource Executive Online I eagerly read a post titled Is Business a Foreign Language for HR? (sadly, no …
It’s true, your boss is a psychopath — UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE?
From the weekly, always insightful, Boston Globe Ideas Section, I give you this week’s UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE [their capitalization, not mine]. This section usually …
The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered — 3 Views
This morning I read something that made me hold my, very hot, coffee, in my mouth, far longer than intended to process the Laura …
5 reasons human resources hurt consumer brands
Every person connected to your organization is in sales and marketing. Each interaction anyone connected to your company, your government agency, …
Sales, finance, and human resources, only room for two at the table
Every business function is subordinated to either: sales, finance, or human resources. How can HR possibly have any impact when business is all about sales, brining in the money and finance making the best use of the money?