Rethinking how people and businesses interact
From the category archives:
Every day, it seems like a new depressing story pops up about the unemployed. Some employers won’t hire them or think being unemployed is a scarlet letter. Others who are disproportionately impacted because of their age, race, disability or veteran’s status tell stories of months without an interview. Still others who are stuck in the [...]
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Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from Benjamin McCall. He runs ReThinkHR.org and is an OD, T&D and business strategy specialist (who incidentally is for hire). In this post, he tackles a hot button topic: why HR pros need to focus on business intelligence over HR specific intelligence. You can follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenjaminMcCall [...]
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Let’s say you work for one of these companies that has heavy machinery, sharp blades and furnaces. Sounds pretty cool, right? Okay, maybe that’s just me. I love industrial workplaces. Places where things are made, where real work gets done and you shake an employees hand and it feels like you just put your hand [...]
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Note from Lance: Today’s post comes from David Rendall. He is a speaker, trainer and management professor and his work takes him across the globe. You can catch him on his Freak Factor blog where he focuses on flaunting weaknesses instead of hiding them or you can follow him on Twitter. “Strong people always have [...]
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Everyone deserves to work on something cool and I had the opportunity to work with twelve of the brightest people in talent to create a free ebook for all of you HR pros out there called Do Amazing Things, Things you can do to become a better HR pro in 2010 (download, 1.2Mb PDF). Big [...]
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A Golf Story I love and hate playing the game of golf. There is something inherently peaceful about walking around a carefully landscaped course and there is something inherently vengeful and ridiculous about trying to get a small white ball into a cup 300 yards away. When I lived a bit closer to my dad, [...]
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Can I be really honest with you? Green jobs aren’t going to save our hide. (h/t PunkRockHR.com) Let that sink in for a few moments. Done? Good. When politicians talk about job creation, anyone with staffing experience has to be completely cynical about that. It sounds so lucrative. The President is going to create a [...]
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Don’t think about it. Just answer me quickly: Is HR fatally flawed? How many of you answered yes? When I first started writing this in April, I said yes too. Yes, this has been on my mind since April, sitting in my draft folder waiting for me to answer the question. And I can tell [...]
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One of the ways my blog has shifted over the last 18 months is that it has become less about what job candidates and employees are doing wrong and more about what HR and management are doing wrong. It has been one of those funny evolutions of a blog that you never see coming when [...]
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