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This is a re-posting of five previous articles from Make HR Happen.
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About Plodders and Heroes - Somehow our society seems to have lapsed into a culture of mediocrity. It seems that in everything we do standards of “minimum performance†tell us how far we have to go until we arrive at comfortable complacency. I’m told that this is negative thinking on my part and that it is typical of boomer mentality to think that excellence should be the goal of everybody. If that is true, so be it. I will wear it as a badge of honor because I sincerely believe it and reject the idea that wanting to rise above the norm is age specific. – more –
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Power, Authority, Impact and Influence – Leadership works because it is taught to those who would be in charge and there are not any courses given for followership. From universities to the military, the topic of how to lead has been dissected, defined, detailed and decrypted ad nauseam. I know what it means to lead. You know what it means to lead. There is a high probability that my concept of leadership and yours are entirely different. When asked how to know that someone is a leader, it often results in an answer of the nature that “I don’t know, but I know it when I see it.†With apologies to those who have a fixed notion of these attributes, you probably have “a†concept of leadership and not “the†concept of leadership.  – more -Â
HR and Made-up Rules – Here is the rule for making a sandwich with Swiss cheese: There is a two-slice minimum. The second slice must be rotated into such a position that there is no exposed gap from a hole beneath it in another layer. To do otherwise would degrade the flavor experience of enjoying the taste of Swiss cheese with every bite and adversely impact the quality of the sandwich-eating experience. – more –
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Life Checker - I love it when I can write with impunity because I know that a spell checker will jump to my rescue and make it look like I can actually spell. If I choose to use a syntax checker I can fix my grammar inconsistencies and make my writing more coherent. Sending text messages can be benefited greatly by auto-correction when it helps fat fingers on a tiny touchscreen turn gibberish into sensible language. – more –
The New Old Generation – The worst job interview I have ever had from the candidate side of the table was with Apple. Before you start throwing things at me for this heretical statement or jumping on an Apple-bashing bandwagon, let me add that this was many years ago. We have both come a long way since then…at least I know that I have and from outward appearances it would appear that Apple is a great place to work. Further setting the scene, there was no Gen X (called the Baby Bust generation in contrast to the Baby Boom) in significant numbers in the workforce and the term Gen Y had not yet been invented. – more –
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