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As some readers may know, I’ve worked with organizations on human resources, organizational/work design and organizational effectiveness issues for most of the past two-and-a-half decades. I’ve also been reasonably deeply involved for the past decade with the evolution of the Web and networks and how they impact knowledge work, work design, collaboration, knowledge management, and… Lire la suite »

Some of the examples are dated. That said, I’m republishing this on the blog to see whether or not anyone has comments as to how far we may have come (or not) since then. What do you do as a leader – a CEO, a Vice-President, a senior manager – in the Knowledge Age when… Lire la suite »

In the wake of the breaking revelation’s of Lehman Bros. alleged Enron-like accounting fraud, Chris Hayes offers the following essay in Time magazine (am I actually linking to Time ?) The Twilight of the Elites In the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society — whether it’s General Motors, Congress, Wall Street, Major… Lire la suite »

First … no answers here.  Only questions and ideas based on past HR experience, observations and some familiarity with interactive and participative dynamics online. Back in January in one of the sections of a post titled “Exploring the HR Management Framework for Enterprise 2.0” I offered up the following: . Employee Performance Performance management has been… Lire la suite »

From a post by Ed Morrison, who seems attached to the Purdue University Center for Regional Development. The whole post is well worth reading, and fits well with the working definition of wirearchy. Why network thinking is different [ Snip … ] In hierarchies, we are looking for the singular leader with the powerful vision…. Lire la suite »

That we evolve as we are involved with each other ?  For better and for worse, medicine it seems, on balance of all the evidence. Via the NY Times … read the full article here. Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force   By NICHOLAS WADE   As with any other species, human populations are shaped by the… Lire la suite »

As I carried out my usual early-morning browsing, this caught my eye. It’s from the comments section of a blog where economist Dean Baker was invited to participate in an on-line salon discussion of his new book “False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy“.  This comment is the first one by Baker in response to… Lire la suite »

Competency models and profiles are a cornerstone of HR methods and practices in today’s enterprise.  They play a central role in: recruiting learning / training & development performance management, and (increasingly) compensation philosophy and practices Competency analysis and profiling was developed from the work of David McLellan, a professor of psychology at Harvard University in the… Lire la suite »

Unfortunately, it’s coming to be called the Spring Olympics .. but seriously, there’s lots of snow at Whistler. Also … the 2010 Winter Olympics will be the first in history to have an independent media centre.  The rise of social media over the last five years means that the accreditation of various people-and-purpose users of… Lire la suite »

I enjoy Charlie Brooker.