Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance. Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion. After we discussed her interview a bit I asked everyone whether we should hire her.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance. Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion. After we discussed her interview a bit I asked everyone whether we should hire her.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

In an interview with The HR Digest, Michael Fraccaro, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance. No board would allow a finance function to focus exclusively on investor reporting or risk hedging, but this type of mistake is all too common when it comes to HR.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Legendary bosses like Bill Sanders in real estate, Julian Robertson in hedge funds, and Bill Walsh in professional football all communicated visions that entranced employees and left them hell-bent on success. A 2013 Society for Human Resource Management survey of managers in the U.S. How to Be a Company That Employees Love.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They’re analogous to autonomous resources, as opposed to human resources, departments. Their results should humble those who privilege human agency. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. That said, a culture of cocreation and collaboration becomes the only way to succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.” Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors. Assign these contacts into key categories: Most-senior clients. Most-senior people in your company. lawyers, accountants).

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