The Social Revolution – processes to networks

     I posted a couple of times fairly recently (1, 2) on the social revolution discussed by Andrew McAfee in one of his Enterprise 2.0 posts. In my last post, I probably went a bit too far, arguing that there doesn’t need to be a move...
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Josh Bersin on informal and social learning

     After a couple of years of phone and email communications (and a guest post), today I finally met up with Josh Bersin (and his colleague Allen Keetch). Josh is in town for the Learning Technologies conference on Wednesday and Thursday,...
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Being your idea generator

     Actually, there’s just one more thing resulting from the HRD Business Summit that I want to write about. This is Ulrich’s breakdown of the roles that need to be involved in transforming HR: Line managers (board of directors,...
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Insight and pragmatism

     The last area I want to discuss in my summary of the HR Directors Business Summit is the need for new insights in HR. One of the key themes that seemed to me to be coming through from the presentations (despite Julian Birkinshaw’s...
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  Update January 2011: I’m no longer delivering the HCS certificate for the HCI.  However, I am delivering great value and high impact human capital strategy workshops for teams of HR practitioners within organisations.  Contact me for...
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     A summary of Julian Birkinshaw’s presentation at the HRD Business Summit: Things have changed.  Knowledge rather than financial capital is now the scarce resource and this means we need to focus on creativity and innovation...
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     I had a chat with Thomas Stewart after his keynote at the HRD Business Summit on Tuesday.
We first discussed how his organisational capabilities relate to David Ulrich’s. I explained that, to me, his capabilities seem quite like... READ MORE - A bit more on Capabilities from Thomas Stewart, New Balance, White & Case and KFC

First names or second?

      One of the other things Tommy Weir talked about was the need to be sensitive to status issues. That in the Middle East he allows his bags to be carried by someone for example, so as not to be seen as inferring that he’s unworthy...
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Kenexa Leadership seminar: leading change; changing leadership

     Busy day today with a couple of afternoon appointments following a seminar on leadership hosted by Kenexa, ‘The Science of Outcomes’.  Despite the title, the key theme for me was the emerging / additional aspects of leadership. ...
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      I’ve just got back from the last couple of days out at the HR Directors Business Summit in Birmingham, UK.  I’ve got a couple of posts coming up but wanted to start with the role of capabilities which were a key theme...
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Want to work together?

     I’ve been thinking about Tammy Erickson’s suggestion (which we discussed on Talking HR) that two jobs will increasingly become the norm. I had two jobs for a while myself – as early on in my current role as an independent consultant...
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Stephen Hester’s diary

      Sunday 17th Jan, 2010   Well, I thought I did rather well in my interview by the Treasury select committee.  And that little joke about my parents thinking I’m paid to much seemed to take the heat of a little...
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The Social Revolution - isn’t hierarchy to networks

     The second point (see my first point) I want to make about the social revolution is that:   2.   It’s possible to have self-organizing and -governing networks AND strong corporate hierarchies Organisation Design...
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I need your spigs

    You may have read my earlier posts on HR’s role (or non-role) in Enterprise 2.0 and the Social Business (eg these posts on Next Generation HR, and my review of Andrew McAfee’s Enterprise 2.0 book). The reason for writing these posts is...
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Social networks and organisations hierarchies

     I’ve been talking to Josh Letourneau, sourcer and executive search consultant come social network analyst following his recent and insightful post ‘Social Capital… is about to change the world‘ in Ryan Leary’s equally interesting...
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