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I don’t have a fundamental problem with someone mentioning their own product or company in a comment here. If you think your product is the best thing since sliced bread and there is a reasonable connection to the topic covered in the post, why not? if you don’t believe in your product, who will?
What does [...]

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I’m coming back around to this topic: HR has a huge role to play in global warming.
I’m not saying that HR is full of hot air. (You thought it, right?) Nope, I’m talking about implementing green strategies that will work. I was reading No Impact Man’s “40 Steps on the [...]

What’s the etiquette of unsubscribing from a friend or colleague’s list?
I have a *lot* of email addresses, some of them belonging more to earlier stages of my business activities but no longer really fitting in with what I do now.
I’d like to close some of them off, especially the ones that have become spam-attractors.
You know, [...]

From Business Week:
Virtual worlds, of which Second Life is the most populous, are becoming more than just a place where Web surfers socialize, play games, or sell nonexistent products to imaginary people. Increasingly, tech-savvy businesses are using virtual worlds to design, create, and even test product concepts before they make their debut in the real [...]

Jack Kerouac went on the road and wrote down what he saw. On The Road wouldn’t have been the literary sensation it was if Kerouac just sat in a room and imagined the characters he wrote about. He lived it.
And that’s our HR Lesson for the Day: Live it, don’t imagine it. Don’t hang out [...]

Scene 1: Your presentation starts out great. You’ve carved your slides down the the best ones and your audience is reacting. You’ve got ‘em. And then you get to that slide that says, “Next steps.”
Scene 2: Your benefits brochure has the best opening line since “It was the best of times, it was the worst [...]

Here’s something pretty cool: KnowHR landed on Fistful of Talent’s Power Blog 25. We’re honored to be in such talented company. Thanks to the FOT Team for the nod. Now the pressure’s on to keep up the good work!

Source: Frank Roche

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I just got a call that started, “You guys still do those pony rides?”
Pardon me?
“Yeah, I got your name off the computer. I’m having a bunch of kids coming over to my house on Sunday, and we’d like to use your pony rides and that Wild West thing you have.”
Sorry…we have [...]

These are my notes of the MBA orientation session that I will be giving later this morning.
I. find a book with keywords
II. find a specific book using citation

The complete book of long-distance cycling : build the strength, skills, and confidence to ride as far as you want / by Edmund R. Burke and Ed Pavelka

[Emmaus, [...]

I was looking at this interactive graphic in the NYT titled How Class Works. It summarizes the four elements that comprise social class in America: occupation, education, income and wealth.
Check out the first column and enter “Human Resources,” which is under the “Management” heading. Yeah, HR is viewed as less prestigious than “Ranch Hand,” [...]