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Q&A with Sharlyn Lauby, HR Bartender
As part of the ASK Newsletter, Q2, we are starting a series of interviews with key voices from the worlds of organisational effectiveness, HR and L&D. (If you’re not a subscriber, visit the...
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Death of a Salesman: the sequel
Sorry for the rather un-festive title, but it’s triggered by reading a fascinating article at Harvard Business Review’s blog – Employees See Death When You Change Their Routines. It seems our sense of...
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Good day at the office, dear?
The question is, of course, a staple of sitcoms. The joke is that we know the answer, whatever the character says or doesn’t say in response. It’s usually ‘No’, but at least we get the comfort of...
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Wherever good ideas come from, they need to be kept alive
I weighed 2lb 2oz when I was born, seven weeks prematurely, in nineteen-hundred-and-do-I-have-to-confess? Without incubators, I almost certainly wouldn’t be here. Other than for those who wish I wasn’t...
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Fresh Crackers (25)
Two counter-intuitive postings from around the wider world of the web, both on aspects of organisational culture and its impact on satisfaction, performance and sustainability … and on the things we...
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Book review: Dave and Wendy Ulrich – The Why of Work
Dave Ulrich is, without question, an HR guru: as with any guru, it’s difficult to know whether to approach them on bended knee or with a degree of trepidation. Having read “The Why of Work”, the best...
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Damned lies, statistics, and home truths: whither L&D?
One of these days, someone will definitively inform us as to the exact percentage of people whose lives are diminished by exposure to statistics, or once and for all model the vectors that trace the...
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Lie still and pretend to be a mound of earth: the best position to avoid...
There are innumerable pop-psychology quizzes to play with on the Internet: endless opportunities to classify yourself as one type or other of something you’ve probably never even contemplated before or...
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Culturalism and the manipulation of free will
Another article that readers can now download. Published in the May edition of Talent Management, the article - by ASK MD, Robert Terry, questions whether the way we engage with our talent is stifling...
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If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive
Earlier this week, we wrote about Malcolm McLaren, a man who was very much the product of an art school education. Though a believer in individual enterprise, and a vendor/creator of clothing, films...
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