Big Data Featured: In order to capture the value of this extraordinary new flow of data, you have to fundamentally rethink your worldview and assumptions. We need better questions. John Sumser has crisscrossed the U.S. and hopped the pond to London to talk with the foremost thinkers on Big Data. Read his articles Big Data and Where Do Ideas Come From to get up to date on how Big Data will reshape HR.
Jason Lauritsen joins The HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board with his article What if HR was Outlawed?. Heather Bussing pens 3 Magic Words and John Sumser has 5 Links: Name of Post. Enjoy.
As we learn to ask the right questions and learn to ask the ones we think are impossible, the magic of measuring will become clearer. Meanwhile, tons of companies will be aggregating the data about our employees and offering to sell it back to us.
“To explore the degree to which your HR organization is designed to produce the results your CEO is seeking, try asking yourself this question: What would happen to your HR department if HR was outlawed?” – Jason Lauritsen
“Most of the world’s knowledge is in our pockets. The answer to almost any question is a google search away. So being able to remember stuff is not so important any more.” – Heather Bussing
In this week’s feature Personal Questions: Women & Work, Heather Bussing pens an inspiring article about her experience in business as a woman, and how we might all approach our work in a way that isn’t constrained by gender or business as usual. It’s a great story with the kind of insight regular readers expect from Heather.
I’m filling in for John Sumser on this week’s 5 links. Here are some additional resources to my piece on Monday, Personal Questions: Women and Work. Thank you for all your comments, shares and tweets. Your attention and kind words are precious gifts.
We’re wired to transmit information from brain to brain. And, we can reprogram the fundamentals.
This was a part of an amazing talk given by Shawn Achor as the opening keynote for the Ultimate Software User Conference.
“Measure twice, cut once” is the way that carpenters deal with this obvious fact. No system of measurement is precise enough to guarantee sound decision making from a single glance.
I don’t care who you are, sometimes you’re just an idiot. We are all imperfect. You, me, everybody. Sometimes it is easy to forget this truth. That’s why I like it when, once in a blue moon, I do something that makes me consciously aware that, for at least a few moments, I’m an idiot. […]
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