Five Links: Staying with the New

Topics: Big Data, HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser

Five Links: Staying with the New - by John Sumser - HRExaminer

The world is changing fast.

Five Links

The world is changing fast. This week’s links point to the global movement against high executive pay, complexity thinking, the importance of context in visualization, pay for play ethics and a review of last week’s Tapestry conference.

  • Buy Your Way to the Top

    The web, prompted by Google’s relentless monetization of traffic, is increasingly a ‘pay for play’ universe. This short piece talks about spending to increase the success of personal and business interests. Your competition pays, why shouldn’t you? “There’s nothing wrong with buying your way to the top, the challenge is staying there.”

  • Can Complexity Thinking Fix Capitalism?

    Steve Denning is one of the quiet stars of the explosion in publishing. Writing for Forbes, Denning demonstrates repeatedly that he is this generation’s Peter Drucker. He is a relentless crusader for the transformation of management practices. In this piece, Denning lays out the case for complexity thinking as a management tool. It is, he claims, evident in Agile methodology, military planning and some forms of stock market analysis. Linear thinking, with its overemphasis on hierarchy and structure limits our capacity to manage effectively.

  • Disruptions: Data Without Context Tells a Misleading Story

    A short nugget about making sure to get the whole story.

  • Switzerland’s Verdict Against High Executive Pay

    Steve Denning, again.”The actions to contain executive pay in Switzerland and the European Union are thus not merely an aberration of irrational populism run amok. As Professor Desai’s article makes clear, the overcompensation of the C-suite is not sustainable. It causes serious mis-allocation of capital and talent, repeated governance crises, rising income inequality and creates a significant brake on the global economy. It cannot continue, if only because, as Margaret Thatcher used to say in a different context, “Sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”

  • Tapestry Conference Remixed

    Last week, I went to the Tapestry conference in Nashville. The gathering of artists, data scientists, journalists and others was focused on the state of the art in graphic and narrative visualization. Here’s a summary.

New Resources:

  • Time Bridge

    Organizes and plans meetings. Useful tool for systems with lots of meetings to keep track of.

Events, etc.



About the author

John Sumser

John Sumser is a principal analyst for HRExaminer, an independent analyst firm covering HR Technology and the intersection of people, tech, and work. John’s mix of experience over the course of his career gives him a broad and unique perspective on the industry. Like anyone trying to process a lot of information, he is two or three steps ahead in some areas and still learning about others. Sumser’s work includes deep research into the nooks and crannies of HR Technology to identify and explain rapidly evolving trends. Built on a foundation of engineering, design, and philosophy, John’s seeks to understand and advise clients on where their technology works best, for whom, and in what context. Each year, John examines the insides of hundreds of companies, their products, and ecosystems. He delivers vendor analysis by building the framework from which to deliver the critique. He is constantly connecting and making visible the front end of change. He can help you see the path of evolution and the risks on the journey. The HRExaminer is Sumser’s vehicle for understanding and explaining the inner workings of the industry. With three weekly podcasts, and written commentary, he covers emerging ideas, the state of the industry, and the executives who operate it.

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