Most of us will have had a feeling or presentiment about another person and have, if we are honest, allowed it to influence our judgement. There is a legend that says most people either get a job / second interview based on the first 30 seconds of the meeting - perhaps this is an ...
This weeks post is a tour de force on leadership between Marc and I! Not surprisingly corporate leaders tend to accentuate “the good”, whereas more often you will hear the “the bad and the ugly” from employees, customers, partners and the general public or non corporate world. In a fast changing and often turbulent ...
The metrics guys are going to love this ;o) Contrary to my previous posts there may be future hope for a strategic model, operating system and generally accepted principles of evaluation which have not been available until now for HR. Just kidding, but here are additional perspectives to follow up my post late last year on Nokia!
It spells out some perspective as to the future ...
Coaching is a crucial management skill. Unfortunately, there are still many misconceptions about the subject. Here's a list of 30 tips from Jeroen De Flander and Sir John Whitmore. The post has been reproduced by kind permission of Jeroen De Flander, author Strategy Execution Heroes. Jeroen will respond to comments on this post.
Ask open questions. ...
Following on from Sally Bibb’s earlier post on Generational Diversity Strategies.
There have lately been no shortage of articles on the ageing workforce and no shortage of comments on how to employ them either! The Economist got in the on the act with a piece called The Silver Tsunami, the author concludes that it is ...
Or aquisition? Thanks to better human resource management practices over the last few years, HR will merge/marry with other functions such as marketing and communications. Social media and emerging web technologies in general are used for recruiting (finding prospective employees), marketing (creating business opportunities), building relationships (getting connected with the community) and in general feeding relevant ...
Spy vs. Spy was, and may still be, a regular cartoon feature in Mad Magazine. The cartoons contain no dialogue and features two spies, one black one white, locked in an eternal struggle in which they are constantly trying to get the better of each other in ever more elaborate ways. Originally conceived as ...
The following post has been reproduced by kind permission of Sally Bibb, Director at talentsmoothie.
Sally will respond to comments on this post.
Have you ever wondered why so many of the people responsible for ‘diversity and inclusion’ report to the CEO, or another very senior person? If you are a cynical person you might say that ...
I have lost my share of time over the years on projects, start-ups ..... the world of work and felt some sort of retribution when I discovered (See below) a sample daily schedule of a Googler. Life as a Google executive seems more like a classic modern day tale of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Sample Schedule as seen on BusinessWeek:
Marissa Mayer ...
The media reported last Monday that the "UK is officially out of recession", business sentiment and a reality check by the end of the week on Friday suggested that leaders now fear a W-shaped recovery. Over the weekend some better news from Austria, where the manufacturing output expanded at fastest pace since March 2008 (Key Points: ...
In the 1540’s the world was in some respects no less turbulent or unpredictable than it is today. It is the decade when Ivan the Terrible came to power as Tsar of Russia, and the Turks began their 150 year occupation of Hungary. It also when the Spanish were busy discovering the Americas, ...
Marge: "Homer, the plant called. They said if you don't show up tomorrow don't bother showing up on Monday."
Homer: "Woo-hoo! Four-day weekend!"
Recently, I became a very proud father. The positive affect of our new arrival in the first few months – to say that it was difficult to concentrate on work, is an understatement. Our ...
In our research it is HR people whom offer up some of the most critical and negative feedback about the function. Many of the HR people I know well, are tired of being asked the same question, usually by HR and about HR.
The business landscape has changed. Downsizing, globalization, and social media, along with a ...
Over at Harvard Business Review Tammy Erickson writes up her “Predictions for 2010: Five Changes in the Way We work”. This is an interesting comment and one I commend to readers of this blog; her predictions seem not only to be spot on but also have considerable implications for the way people are managed ...
Marc’s previous post discussing “the very fat and lazy” put me in mind of the HR Director at BKV, Eleonóra Szilágyi Szalainé. I have met many HR Directors over the past several years; and I don’t recall this one as being either exceptional or typical, but it appears that she did develop a uniquely personal ...
Over the few years that I have taken an interest in the world of Human Resources, the saga continues on “Is HR adding value to the business?”.
When Peter and I started working on the Pan European HR Network in April last year, we interviewed an HR Leader and Executive Board Member of a Global 500 ...
Heavy HR? Looking for a New Year’s resolution? Does your HR Department need to go on a diet?
Driving through the snow this morning I pondered my first post of 2010, given the time of year I thought it best to focus in on January tradition. Roll up! Roll Up! Yes it is that time ...
2010 (MMX) will be a common year starting on Friday in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It will also be the first year of the 2010s decade. Proclaimed by the United Nations, 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. The 2000s is the decade that started on January 1, 2000 and ends on December 31, 2009. ...
Geoff Immelt of GE’s comments on leadership in his speech at West Point made the headlines this week but it was the following remark that made the media sit up.
“ I think we are at the end of a difficult generation of business leadership, and maybe leadership in general. Tough-mindedness, a good trait – was replaced by ...
Dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better. Can making something more fun change human ...
