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Managing Time As A Precious Resource

The new definition of irony is someone who has taught a time management course but has trouble maintaining their own calendar. Look that up in your dictionary and you will see a picture of me! I was guilty of no original thinking in conducting this training as it was a canned course my company purchased with the rights to reproduce the workbooks, slides and videos. It was actually a pretty good revelation of time wasters… Read More »Managing Time As A Precious Resource

Recruiting Management And Key Stakeholders

Who are stakeholders? And what is this stake they are holding? This one of the words we learn in grade school English as a homonym (or homophone) which is, as our dictionaries define it, “one of a group of words pronounced in the same way but differing in meaning or spelling or both.” This one also happens to be a word in which the same spelling can have multiple meanings, making it also a homograph.… Read More »Recruiting Management And Key Stakeholders

True Influencers

Every time HRExaminer by John Sumser publishes another list there seems to be a mixed opinion about its validity and usefulness. Once upon a time, I enjoyed reading these lists to insure that I was following key opinion leaders in various areas and learning from them. This seemed to be working well for me…until April of this year when my own name unexpectedly appeared on the top 25 Digital Influencers in Recruiting. Then I really… Read More »True Influencers

Un-notes From #truBoston

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In the days of incandescent bulbs, instant-on brilliance was a good analogy for an idea. Since the introduction of compact fluorescent curly thingys, we have the luxury of a slower start-up and it may be several days before everything lights up in that cloud over my head. Looking over my notes from two days of #truBoston it became clear that I had spent way too much time learning stuff instead of making a record of… Read More »Un-notes From #truBoston

Organizational Problem Solving

Wisdom is not a characteristic of age. Knowledge is not a measure of education. Solutions to problems are not found by intuition. We accept these generalizations as true although we sometimes act otherwise. To a certain degree, experience gained along with seniority is to be respected, educated people have been trained to think at a higher level, some things are intuitively correct, however in business we cannot assume this to be true without some sort… Read More »Organizational Problem Solving