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On the road again

August 2, 2011

  Call me crazy if you want, (looking at you, Stelzner) but I miss business travel.    In fact, I have been humming this tune to myself recently. On the road again – Just can’t wait to get on the road again. The life I love is making music with my friends And I can’t wait [...]

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A love letter to Summer Camp

June 9, 2011

 I wanna be at People Report Summer Camp! Dear powers that be, I’m really mad that you didn’t let me make it to People Report Summer Camp this year.  It’s my favorite conference event of the year, and all my friends are there, and I am not.  And that sucks!    All the other kidz got to [...]

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Finding the wildlife at a Summer Camp for Social Media and HR Rock Stars

May 4, 2011

The HR Conference Rock Star Lifestyle Two conferences down last week, more to come in the days and weeks ahead.   The HR conference tour-  It’s a whirlwhind rockstar life if you can afford to pay for it!  (or you have sponsors and friends who are willing to assist you).  I am lucky to have both, which means I don’t [...]

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What’s wrong with working like a dog anyway?

September 19, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Great HR means letting go My buddy Frank Roche wrote a piece on the Know HR blog the other day called  Sometimes Great HR means letting go and unleashing creativity. He couldn’t be more right if he tried! The article is about how the employees at IFRACTAL spontaneously decided to create a [...]

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Yes son, that IS your father’s drug test!

July 17, 2010

Image via Wikipedia We need you to pee in this cup, please Drug testing employees is not something I think about very often.   It  is  not something I like to think about that much either.  My history with the topic goes back to the dark ages of the 1980′s, a time when you could do drug [...]

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Hoe gaat het? #TRUAmsterdam

June 24, 2010

Image via Wikipedia When you can’t get to Amsterdam, send ‘em a video, yo! I had a paying project come up for this week that prevented me from attending the first #TRUAmsterdam event.  Having to say that hurts, dudes.  Amsterdam is my favorite city in the whole world, and it is difficult to miss an [...]

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My People Report Summer Camp Adventure – Part 2

June 16, 2010

Cover via Amazon Perfect mix of conference and unconference I attended a unique conference last week.  It was called People Report Summer Camp, and it was aimed primarily at human resources practitioners in the restaurant industry.  The conference was put on by Joni Doolin and the wonderful staff at People Report. If you are not [...]

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Networking: It’s a small world after all

June 13, 2010

Image by Express Monorail via Flickr Relationships matter, even those you don’t know about You never know who you know that knows someone you might know! While I know it to be true,  I m still always surprised at what a small world we actually live in, especially with the advent of social media. Last [...]

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New VLOG series on HRH

January 4, 2010

Image by kenjonbro via Flickr HR Saab Story Welcome to my new recurring Vlog series which I am calling “HR Saab Stories”.   The premise is simple, and stupid.   I am going to record one minute (more or less) video blogs in my Saab when the urge strikes.  These will be topics related to things I [...]

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Here is why you really need to like the people you work with!

December 13, 2009

Image via Wikipedia If it’s Tuesday, it must be another guest post So, it is Tuesday. I am probably lunching in an out of the way bistro with my wife right now, watching the people stroll by, without a care in the world. I might also be going through the cold sweats as I begin [...]

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