Category: Resource Management
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You know global warming is bad. This expert says it’s worse.
@Knowlengr offers a short review of Surviving Global Warming by Roger Sedjo
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Bush the Elder’s “Vision Thing”
A colleague suggested a TED talk by Simon Simek on “leadership.” Can any talk or book about “leadership” be credible? I am suspicious of someone who casually proposes that humans are motivated “by biology not psychology.” As if these could be cleanly partitioned off from one another. I can perhaps overlook that oversimplification. But most organizations “believe”…
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Recruiting #fail: On Recruiting for Proficiency
What follows is a position description received this month from a firm — not a recruiter. Required Technical Skills: Proficiency in all MS Office applications including MS Project Front end development (HTML, Flash, Ajax, Javascript – templates) Back end development (XML, HTTPS, Web Services, Web dav, data mapping) Experience with implementing and managing Demand Ware…
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Use (Corporate Knowledge) or Lose It
When a firm decides to shutter operations, the loss of knowledge capital in the form of talent should appear somewhere in the risk assessment. While significant short term savings may be achieved by closing a division (in the case of Microsoft, perhaps to save $$$ to purchase Skype?), one side effect can be a brain…