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Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – October 21 thru October 27, 2012

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In case you missed this week’s articles, here is a summary:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Media: Too Dynamic To Grasp… Too Powerful To Ignore – Last week an article written by Tom Pick appeared on the Webbiquity | B2B Marketing Blog site that was called 87 More Vital Social Media Marketing Facts and Stats for 2012. The title is an immediate attention getter because it is obviously not somebody’s condensation of data into the usual David Letterman sized list. Also, the word “more” implies that the list may be a continuation from another list or lists. It also suggests that the list probably won’t end here. Such is the dilemma facing leaders who must decide on a company’s use of social media in a business setting.

 

Danger: Dinosaur Crossing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leading With Your Lizard Brain – I have always been fascinated by the human brain. There is so much pop psychology floated around by amateurs that we rarely get an honest glimpse into how it works. We hear so much about how our brains are wired, but that is gross oversimplification. If the truth were known, even the experts have difficulty exploring and understanding this organ. Functionally, parts of our brain have remained prehistoric. An excellent article by Christine Comaford in Forbes called Hijack! How Your Brain Blocks Performance goes into exciting detail explaining in lay terms how the brain can affect action.

 

Frederick Winslow Taylor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Culture of Taylor, Today, and Tomorrow – Even though he died almost 100 years ago, Frederick Winslow Taylor remains a controversial figure today. Coming from an affluent family, he was a brilliant man who decided after passing the entrance exam to Harvard Law School with honors to become an apprentice patternmaker and machinist. In what must have been a baptism of fire, he completed four years of grueling apprenticeship and became a machine shop common laborer in a steel factory. As “one of the guys” he noticed with some concern that nobody seemed to be interested in working their machines to their maximum performance, much less push themselves to excel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recruiter: Specialist and General Practitioner -  How many times do we forget that we all are able to fill multiple roles even if we have chosen to specialize in one particular area? I remember early lessons in life when I was told to believe the old wives’ tale that there were people who were “jack of all trades, master of none.” There may be some foundation of truth in that myth, but most intelligent, thinking human beings are not that single minded. The truth is that we sometimes make conscious choices based on our wants, needs and abilities. Sometimes serendipity just hands it to us, but memory of things once learned never really gets buried so deeply in memory that it couldn’t be recovered almost instinctively.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Tunnel Tutorial for Job Seekers – In the middle of a tunnel you never know exactly where you are located. Motivation to continue is based on the basic survival need that you cannot remain where you are. Dark is scary. In a job search, you pick your tunnel based on the best information you have at the moment and usually must proceed along that path until you reach the end. As you fumble through the darkness, step by step, bend by bend, you never really know if your goal will be waiting for you.

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