Monday, August 12, 2002

Seen on a t-shirt last night:. "At a cellular level...I'm really quite busy." Ha! [evhead] 6:13:18 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

The 8 Catastrophic Mistakes in Workforce Planning.. John Sullivan has a nice ERExchange column this week. Great review of worforce planning failures:  Plans are too ambitious.  Unprepared for the negative.  Underestimating the impact of powerful recruiting.  Ineffective internal movement.  Ignoring contingency workforce percentages.  Managers didn't own it.  Narrow target. Failure to prioritize.  He also makes the point that plans are useless if stakeholders don't believe in them and put them to work. My question: Starter Scope. What is the bare bones, bone-headed workforce plan that makes the first big difference? What planning activity is simple enough that the average HR person in a 100 person company has a great chance of avoiding all these pitfalls?  [diJEST: a journal of extrapreneurial strategy and technology] 6:12:07 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Reorganizing the back catalog If you haven't checked out Salon's spiffy new upgraded article directory, you're missing out. In its seven-year history Salon has published tens of thousands of articles on every subject under the sun. The directory helps you find your way through this. You'll also find a nifty "most popular topics" feature at the bottom of the directory's main page. When you access most older Salon stories you will now find them reformatted at a dir.salon.com URL. If you want to see the page in its original format, there's a link at the bottom -- or just change the URL to archive.salon.com. On the other hand, apologies are in order for the state of our search engine, which actually indexes Salon well but does not handle multi-word searches well -- and that's the most common kind of search. We're still working on it; in the meantime, Google does a fantastic job of searching Salon, as it always has. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment] 12:40:22 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

KQED. I love listening to the morning news during the afternoon here in Spain. It keeps me in touch with home. I need to send these guys some cash. LISTEN to KQED Public Radio, San Francisco -Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook] 12:36:15 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Ethics By Analogy. For some reason I really learn a lot about things by analogy. I'm not sure if this is because my... [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog] 12:35:00 PM    trackback []     Articulate []