Thought for the Day: “Today’s trend is tomorrow’s folly”

SearchWiki: Make Search Your Own
From the official Google blog comes an approach to search that will eliminate the impact of SEO/SEM. In the long haul, building relationships will trump gaming the search engines. Be careful of the way you allocate your resources. Today’s trend is tomorrow’s […]

Thought for the Day: “Recruiting leads to winners and losers” - Steve Levy

Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing
Imagine it’s sometime during the early 1700s.  Printing presses are just becoming commonplace. Primitive versions of newspapers start to emerge. Here’s a sample headline: “New Teenage Fad, Reading, Not a Bad Thing”  Here’s the story from the […]

I asked my good friend, Heather Bussing, to try to restate the last article. I want to be sure that I am communicating the idea clearly. Having another person reframe the same thing is a really good way to make sure that the idea is being effectively delivered.
Here is her version of yesterday’s article:
John Sumser […]

Population Distribution Diagrams: Definitions
(Nov 19, 2008)Population Distributions Defined
There’s a pretty length series of discussions about Population Distribution Diagrams (PDDs) in the archives. (There’s also a list of  links at the end of this piece).
In a nutshell, PDDs are graphs that show how a group of people are distributed along the lines of calendar age, tenure […]

Thought For The Day: "We are in the middle of a data explosion that changes everything. It used to be cheap, now it’s plentiful."
Microsoft Plans Free Software To Shield PCs "Free" has just begun. Maybe if MSFT acts like they own their problems for a change, their credibility will return.
The Real Dan Lyons bails on […]

(Nov 18, 2008)
The Problem
Hiring is almost always reactive, transactional and shortsighted. Even the best hiring environments rarely consider the aggregate impact of an individual hire. Relatively few organizations provide guidance beyond platitudes about the strategic meaning of any given position.
Before automation and the various management technologies of the 80s and 90s, service functions within the […]

Thought For The Day: "When giving a public science lecture to a general audience, there will always be one weirdo who asks questions that have nothing to do with your lecture. There will also be one smart-aleck who asks questions to show how smart he is. The faster you silence both of them, the happier […]

Idiot Savants
(November 17, 2008) Today’s piece is a response to a deliciously funny article by my good friend Ami Givertz. In “Speaking In Tongues“, Ami compares charismatic snake charmers and healers with the current crop of celebrities in the Recruiting Industry.
Josh Kahn makes similar points in his article “Caveat Lector“. Josh is at the opposite […]

Thought For the Day: Once you begin to believe your own resume, you will not be happy with your current job or salary.
Talent Management Functions Like the Kidney that Hires the Good Personnel and FiresInspired by a piece of email that featured quotes from "What is the Color of your Parachute" and the idea that […]

Thought For the Day: Focus, focus, focus

Google Finally Starts Firing Slackers?
“Recent change in behavior here at Google… it used to be nearly impossible to get fired for general underperformance, but about a week ago word went out to managers that this was a good time to get rid of any people who were underperforming.”
A scientific […]