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Working in HR Does Not Make You a Leader

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Human Resources as a profession has come a long way from the days that carved out a “personnel” function to do the grunt work for managers that were too often insensitive to the people needs of a company. In a mad search for improved productivity, business leaders and academics arrived at similar conclusions that workers are not slaves to their masters’ every whim, but are indeed a valuable “resource” along with other components of success.… Read More »Working in HR Does Not Make You a Leader

Tech Wars: Difficulties Beyond Our Control

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We interrupt this blog due to technical difficulties beyond our control… or anybody’s control for that matter. If your internet provider is Comcast you could not see my website yesterday. I’m not sure exactly when this problem began because most Mondays are a blur of activity for me. It could have actually started over the weekend. I noticed that there was some kind of glitch mid-morning when I was trying to upload a new blog… Read More »Tech Wars: Difficulties Beyond Our Control

What Leadership Is Not

What is leadership? The viewpoint used by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the famous Jacobellis v. Ohio case in 1964 regarding pornography and obscenity comes to mind: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description…  but I know it when I see it…“ Like other things that we weakly try to define, in many cases we understand a concept by observation… Read More »What Leadership Is Not

Social Media: Too Dynamic To Grasp… Too Powerful To Ignore

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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… Read More »Social Media: Too Dynamic To Grasp… Too Powerful To Ignore

Job Seekers: Do You Want It All (or Just a Job)?

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Sometimes a parent gets a gratifying clue that the lessons cast before the kids was actually heard and understood. It’s hard to understand why my always sage advice would not instantly sink in, but that is the way it is. My parents would call it payback…I never listened to them either. Several years ago in answering my son’s perceptive “What’s going on Dad?” question I somehow blurted out that I had a career decision to… Read More »Job Seekers: Do You Want It All (or Just a Job)?