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Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Spicy Bits of Life

Beginning the week with motivational ideas, we moved through discussions of branding, diversity, reality, and unemployment. There is so much more to talk about on these topics. You can count on seeing continuations of these ideas in the weeks to come. Mar 11 - Philanthropy of Experience - Everyone has some unique experience to share with the world. This is not because of their individual worth because even those living under a rock can sometimes show us… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Spicy Bits of Life

About Unemployment Figures and Liars

I had always heard that it was Mark Twain who originated the phrase “Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure.” It sounds so Twainesque that it makes total sense to attribute that clever saying to him. Garson O’Toole writes a scholarly blog Quote Investigator in which he traces the origins of this and other commonplace phrases. He seriously questions whether or not that it was Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain who first used the phrase.… Read More »About Unemployment Figures and Liars

A Job Search Is Reality, Not Reality TV

Well, the truth is out now. I absolutely loathe reality TV. One part of me is in deep admiration of the producers who epitomize capitalism by capturing something that is marketable, selling the concept and raking in tons of cash. God bless America! On the other hand, most of them appeal to the most frivolous of all animal instincts and with shock and awe attempt to pass off abnormal behavior as reality. These should all… Read More »A Job Search Is Reality, Not Reality TV

Gender Equilibrium

Dinner table conversation at my house usually gravitates toward the “How was your day, Dear?” type of discussion. It usually is a real discussion rather than small talk because my wife and I are both professionals working in strange and exotic lands… well not really, but it seems like it at times. She is an engineer working in a field seemingly populated entirely by alpha males and I am an HR professional with typically more… Read More »Gender Equilibrium

The Art of Tootology

Some phrases are difficult to define and are usually not translatable into another language. According to some accounts, John F. Kennedy made a major German language faux pas in his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech in Berlin, Germany. The more grammatically correct text would have been “Ich bin Berliner.” So instead of saying “I am a citizen of Berlin” as he intended, his thick Boston accent and the insertion of a single word could have… Read More »The Art of Tootology