From the monthly archives: February 2012
Are you getting tired of the “Engagement” buzzword? It seems every time you turn around these days there is some new product with a marketing campaign that claims they will be able to jack your engagement scores. Driving employee engagement has definitely become the holy grail of any and all human capital management practices. But [...]
If you have been following this blog at all you will know I am a fan of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I have written a few posts drawing lessons. Here is another classic scene when Sundance is accused of cheating at cards. Check out the clip and I will add my [...]
I just finished reading a very interesting article from the New York Times Magazine entitled “How Companies Learn Your Secrets.” It is an incredible account about the methods retailers use to analyze the habits of customers and then predict and manipulate buying behavior. It is the essence of predictive analytics. We have been buzzing about [...]
In the late 1990′s the explosion of the Web revolutionized the applicant tracking market. There were so many ATS products and it seemed like a new one popped up every week. The market expanded, inevitably consolidated, and then more recently it has been moving horizontally to become the Talent Management Suite. In the last few years [...]
When I was a kid, my mother used to trim the crust from the edges of my PB&J sandwich. As I grew older she stopped, but I was never really fond of the crust. And most certainly when we got down to the end of a loaf of bread, the heels (two end pieces) would [...]
When you talk about any technology these days there is one word that will inevitably enter your conversation. Mobile. Everything is going mobile. It still amazes me how much computing power is now available in the palm of your hand. We no longer call them cell phones. They are now called mobile devices. You can [...]
While all of the discussion over the last few months has been about SAP/SuccessFactors and more recently the Oracle/Taleo deal, LinkedIn has been quietly going about the business of making money. After the hyped up IPO there was a lot of speculation that the company was overvalued and no way it could meet expectations and [...]
I have been an unemployed blogger for a little more than a year and it’s definitely time to get back to work. You know you have way too much time on your hands when you start watching television shows like The Bachelor. I hate to admit that I do, and I will probably deny it [...]
One thing I learned early in my career is that if you want to gain anything in this world you need to learn how to give. I attended one of those “self-help” seminars when I was 22 and there was a slogan emblazoned everywhere, on banners, coffee mugs, buttons and lapel pins: “Givers Gain.” While [...]
Well it did not take long for the other shoe to drop. Today it was announced that Oracle intends to acquire Taleo. There has been a lot of speculation that this would be the next big acquisition and I think it makes a lot of sense. We took a poll here at InsideTMT and 50% of the respondents [...]
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Great Books
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford
The Art of War: With Commentaries by James Clavell by Sun Tzu, Sun Zi, James Clavell(Editor), James Clavell(Editor), James Clavell(Commentaries by)
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss, Ray Porter(Read by)
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H. W. Brands
