Monaco To Paris With Twitterscope Up
Provence, Toujours Provence You’ll have noticed that my last post went up on May 3rd, shortly after we left for two weeks vacation. Before I return to our regularly scheduled programming, to blogs on more or less professional topics, I wanted to say a few words about this vacation and its impact on my state of […]
A Bloom’s Christmas: Inventory Management And Retail Retold
Bloom’s Camera Catalogue Circa 1950 On Christmas Eve, my Dad’s retail camera shop closed early, and we knew we’d have him with us all that next day. Really just with us, even if he was too tired for much conversation after working the very long hours of the retail Christmas season. New Year’s Day was for […]
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 […]
Bloom & Wallace Release 2011
These projects took 6-9 months, with me working intensively with a carefully selected client team led by an HR executive, and with a steering committee that always included senior line executives as well as the CFO and CIO which was chaired by the senior most HR executive. Hewlett-Packard, International Paper, Bank of America, ALCOA, Metropolitan Life, Reynolds Metals, […]
M&A Observations: Whither Goest Genesys?
Late-breaking news. Genesys’ buyer is PeopleStrategy, the current owner of Integral Systems (which was Dave Duffield’s predecessor company to PeopleSoft, so we’re going back here to the mid-80′s for it’s heyday). PeopleStrategy is led by Randy Cooper, who also led the buy of Genesys for Salary.com. Randy is very experienced with that generation of HRMS, having […]
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” — Let’s Change That In Chicago
The more things change, the more they remain the same doesn’t sound as romantic as the French, but it’s a reasonable translation. So it is in many aspects of life, and so it is especially in my little corner of the professional world, at that intersection of HRM and IT where I’ve been camped out […]
Reflections Of A Digital Immigrant Gone Semi-Native: An Embarrassment Of Riches
As many of you know, I had left shoulder rotator cuff repair surgery on 12/18/09 and have been mostly offline since then except for backlogged blog posts (extensive, probably boring suggestions for “killer” scenarios) and the odd tweet (sometimes very odd as a result of the pain meds I’ve been taking, as sparingly as possible). With […]
After 40, It’s Patch, Patch, Patch
Camp Mar-Lin girls circa 1953 — can you spot Naomi?
I can tell you a few things about aging. The best way to express my philosophy of aging is through the words of an unknown writer: Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, […]
