From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Building the Opportunity Community

August 31, 2009

KODA  is not just another job board One of the new career sites to come on the scene recently is KODA.   I first heard of KODA in detail in New Orleans when I got a chance to meet Katie Del Guercio, Director of Business Development & Marketing.  Katie is one of about a dozen employees [...]

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A Disney Trilogy: Consultants

August 30, 2009

The Trouble with Trilogies This is the fourth attempt I have made at drafting the 2nd installment in my Disney Trilogy posts.  The idea I want to cover seems to taking up a lot of room in my head, but not transferring well into blog post form.  I am pretty sure that when you are [...]

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I learned everything I need to know about people management at the Post Office

August 28, 2009

Punk Rock Postal Laurie Ruettimann is mad because so many people are haters of the U.S. Postal Service.   She’s got a point. They do a hell of a job delivering mail to the all the god-forsaken places that people live across the country for only forty-four cents per piece of first class mail. And it [...]

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A Disney Trilogy: Consulting

August 27, 2009

A Disney Trilogy I still find myself thinking about the Disney Institute experience nearly a week after I left.  There are three things still percolating a bit that I am going to write about.  They all relate to the consulting piece of the work  a team of HR/social media bloggers recently did with the Disney Institute. Risk and Reward [...]

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Location matters (key words too!)

August 25, 2009

Image by Jeff the Trojan via Flickr Me and porn I wrote a post on iPhones potentially being used to bring pornography into the workplace in the near future.  I thought this would be of some interest to HR peeps.  About 55 people came around to take a look at it here. I posted the [...]

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Cultural Touchstones

August 25, 2009

What shapes college freshman in 2009    Want to feel really old or really young?  Read this list from Beloit College called the Mindset List.  It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this year.  It is the creation of Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride [...]

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Porn in the workplace: Is there an App for that?

August 24, 2009

Building your firewall Smartphones, Sex and Business You put up the latest advances in firewall protection and keystroke monitoring technology.  You block MySpace, Facebook, and numerous other sites with “dubious/unsavory” ratings.  You broadcast well drafted policies on the use of social media, the use of company computers for unauthorized or illegal purposes.  You are feeling [...]

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Beyond the HR Breakfast Club!

August 24, 2009

 Social Media Extravanganza   The head content dude here at Human Race Horses spent a busy week at conferences last week, live blogging, speaking, being interviewed on video, and being profiled on blogs.   I need to be careful or people may actually start paying attention to what I say! Links to Human Race Horses in the [...]

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Leadership and Courage at Disney – Part II

August 24, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife In the first part of this two part post, I touched on some things that are part of the Disney approach that might be perceived as being either extremely cautious or unresponsive, unusual negatives for a brand that hits the mark so much of the time.   This behavior can [...]

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Leadership and Courage at Disney – Part 1

August 23, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Conservative Leadership So far, all the posts I have written about my experience at the Disney Institute have focused on the very positive aspects of the experience.    It is important to note that like any organization, Disney is not without some warts.   I made some notes on a few of the things [...]

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