Reflections On A Long Career — Part II — My Heroes
Larry Seidel’s Other Interests My first post in this series was about what we can do to prepare for and sustain a long, productive and satisfying career. In this post, I’d like to give credit — and there’s a lot to give — to the people who helped shaped the professional I became. We should all be [...]
Reprise — When Bank Branch Managers Are Called President
1/31/2012 — Shortly after I launched my blog, I published the post below. I’ve thought about it often since then, but never more so than today. So what set me off enough today to make me republish a two-year-old blog post? A very new HR technology blogger published a reasonable blog post that highlighted some vendors [...]
Is HR Really A Pink-Collared Ghetto?
HR Is A Dominated By Women But Led By Men I had planned to write this last September, so let’s just pretend that I did rather than wondering why I didn’t. It’s a critically important topic, and I hope that you’ll listen to the whole linked replay of the underlying discussion. We’re at a critical [...]
A Paean To Older Workers
Should Our Role Model Be Cher?2010 MTV Video Music Awards 2010 MTV Video Music Awards My paean to older workers, a twitterverse: When does a worker become an older worker? At a particular age? when KSAOCs with half-lives have degraded to that point? When they look old? Am I an older worker? I accept being [...]
Father’s Day Thoughts: Remembering Jack Samuel Bloom
From my Dad I inherited:
* his ability to tell a good story, to make a point while making you laugh;
* his commitment to active friendship, the kind of friendship that does what you need even when you don’t know you need it;
* his belief that any day on which you wake up is already a good day, that the gift of life is too precious to waste;
Legacy HRMS/Legacy Marriage: Sunk Costs Versus Innovation
Two completely unrelated conversations over the last week caused that ding ding thing in my brain that happens when the dots connect themselves and I have an aha moment. One of those discussions took place on a radio talk show I heard while driving to a meeting. The other was a courtesy call with the HR and IT heads…
Thinking Is My Job: Blogging Those Thoughts Is Now My Passion
I started my career as a programmer writing payroll applications in machine language to run in 4K memory. Over more years than most women would admit, I’ve focused my career on the application of information technology to HRM in order to achieve breakthroughs in business outcomes. Rather than being satisfied with cheaper payroll operations or faster [...]
Tiger And Me: A Cautionary Tale
He’s not my type, nor am I his, but I’ve met several Tigers in my forty plus years “on the road.” Early days, while I was still in graduate school and single (yes, I really was young once and quite a hotty), he was a Boston Bruin star. I was working full time days as a [...]
When Bank Branch Managers Are Called President
Today’s wonderful Dilbert strip got me thinking about how easy it is to use words that mislead, manipulate, and generally obscure the truth. In Lake Woebegon, where all the men are handsome and the children are above average, we dance around performance issues, letting the person in question think that things are going pretty well when, in [...]
Signal To Noise Ratio: Performance Management Breakthrough?
Wikipedia defines the signal-to-noise ratio (did I mention that Ron was a NASA communications systems engineer with an ABD in electrical engineering?) as the ratio of signal power to the noise power corrupting the signal. A ratio higher than 1:1 indicates more signal than noise, a very good thing. SNR compares the level of a desired signal to the level of [...]
