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Fast Start conversation: Females: girls to women; males: boys to men. Same species different rules. Much we compare and much to despair. In education schools reward women. Men can’t hack certain academics: they get worse grades; follow less-rigorous academic programs; and take part in less advanced-placement classes. Girls outnumber boys in student government, in honor societies, [...]
Murphy’s Law sets the following: “anything that can possibly go wrong, does.” I do not believe in Murphy’s Law. The only law I do believe in is the law of gravity. Gravity affects all. Murphy does not. When things get bent Murphy takes too much credit (blame) when the more likely result being a symptom [...]
Fast Start conversation: New research with large data, known as Big Data, are creating big problems for human resource s (HR) and HR professionals. Big Data, Trying to Build Better Workers and New York Times’ Steve Lohr, presents a herd of reasons data can bring HR recruiting, training, and retaining enlightenment to change employment bias. An applicants work history [...]
Yesterday worked with Project Management Institute New York City chapter in an all-day retreat with focus on communication and collaboration. Here is the presentation Stephen Nosal and I collaborated on for a discussion on integrated communication and social media might look like. Yesterday’s objectives included how the chapter shares events and activities that improve community persona need. [...]
RING! Your alarm goes off. Smack! Your alarm is off. The mental fog retreats and gives way to the slow realization of why you set the alarm. Last week a slow realization came into focus that my profession, and passion, change management, elicits similar transference and abuse as an alarm clock does. There is similarity [...]
Projects impact people and project success relies on people impact for adoption. Projects can have success without project tools and templates, but project tools provide a sanity check for random, emotional, and irrational acts people are capable of. Are tools a prescription for success? No. Never. But certainly tools provide buttress against the irrational. To understand [...]
Fast Start conversation: People speak loudest with their feet. Markets, in an economist perspective, are all about exits, when to sell, when to cash in. When you pick up and leave you’ve said more than words. Politics deals in having a voice. When your voice is most effective is when there is possibility to exit, [...]
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