The war for talent goes global
April 7, 2008
Few industries are so intensely engaged in the war for skilled people as is the high tech industry. Talent is everything.
Microsoft and other powerhouses have been lobbying for more immigrant visas for skilled workers from abroad, which is illustrative…
Want to succeed in High-Tech? Focus on your customers
January 12, 2007
A guest post by Erik Berggren - Director of Customer Results, SuccessFactors.
You probably don’t need me to tell you that successful companies are ones who provide products people want. But what sometimes gets lost is that this is true not…
Want to succeed in High-Tech? Focus on your customers.
January 12, 2007
A guest post by Erik Berggren - Director of Customer Results, SuccessFactors.
You probably don’t need me to tell you that successful companies are ones who provide products people want. But what sometimes gets lost is that this is true not…
Google: HR Innovator?
January 5, 2007
Not to keep flogging the Google horse or anything, but it appears the company is doing some innovative stuff beyond its products. The company has gained some HR-related attention before for using billboards featuring complex mathematical problems to recruit engineers. Now, they’ve turned…
Loyalty is fragile
September 19, 2006
A colleague sent me this article from the Studer Group called “The Long Goodbye”. It caught my eye because it formalized something I’d been considering for a long time: When someone decides to leave his or her company, it’s rarely…
Creatively retaining talent
September 18, 2006
GigaOm highlights Yahoo’s new attempt at retaining top talent. Called Brickhouse, the project is essentially an in-house incubator meant to give it’s entrepreneurial employees another reason to stick with the company. Not altogether different from the Google 20% – wherein…
Is self-awareness a competency?
January 27, 2006
I came across this interesting interview at HCI.com on the nature of self awareness as a tool for managers. The interview is with Dr. Miriam Lacey, a professor at Pepperdine University who focuses on organizational behavior and development. The point with…
Frank Lynn guest posts: When you have an army of direct reports
January 10, 2006
During the holidays, one of my good friends from Germany visited me with her boyfriend, Elger. At 33, Elger is one of the youngest Chief of Detectives in Germany. He’s an amazing guy—black-belt in Judo, fluent in Russian and German,…
Top 2006 Technology Trends for Small Business
January 10, 2006
The small business trends blog has a list of the top technology trends for small business. One of them (they aren’t numbered) is hosted applications. The author points out that:
While traditional PC based applications have a role to play,…
On-Demand is a power plant
December 27, 2005
A pretty good article in the San Francisco Chronicle on Christmas day about On-Demand software. More or less a primer on On-Demand, it profiles a number of SaaS (Software as a Service) companies including RightNow, Salesforce.com and NetSuite. Here’s a snippet…
