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Managing Culture Change

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The inflated role that human resources professionals profess to have on culture change in the workplace needs to be tempered with a little reality. One of the most important functions in any business is strong, knowledgeable, and professional HR leadership, but in almost all cases they operate by the grace of company executive management that looks to them to be a value added to the decision making process… not to make those decisions. This is… Read More »Managing Culture Change

Please Pardon the Inconvenience

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The sign at the door of the supermarket said, “Thank you for your patience while we remodel our store.” Since the store was open 24-hours a day, there was no down time for the destructors to do their work. They hung tarps from ceiling to floor, and behind the “Hard Hat Required Beyond this Point” signs you could hear crunching and scraping of old stuff being ripped out to make way for the new. It… Read More »Please Pardon the Inconvenience

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Fringes Make Things Different

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When Barack Obama was a candidate for President of the United States, he uttered a comment that may well be his defining moment; like JFK’s “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,“ or FDR’s “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” His went like this: “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Fringes Make Things Different

Redefining the Fringe

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The fringe elements of our society can be identified with characteristics that are on the tails of just about every bell shaped distribution curve. We make assumptions either consciously or subconsciously that we are the “normal” case and people not like us are measured according to where we think we lie on that curve. We get excited about new ideas that always seem to spring from somewhere along the fringes. We sometimes are terrified by… Read More »Redefining the Fringe

Corralling, Conquering, and Cultivating Cynicism

When somebody accuses me of being cynical, it is difficult to keep that smirky smile from showing up on my face. I am one that takes pride in being somewhat on the edge of everything, so I wear that cynicism label like a badge of honor. Like all human actions, the correct use of a symbolically negative thing can add punctuation to an idea. Have you noticed that when ordinarily civil people use profanity it… Read More »Corralling, Conquering, and Cultivating Cynicism