Bruce’s Blog

• The Performance & Talent Management Blog: Guest Post: Don’t Believe the Counter-Hype: Software as a Service Is Here To Stay
  Software as a service to stay
  (tags: saas software web2.0 hr)
• HR.COM- The Human Resources Portal
  Predictive analysis for retention
  (tags: hr retention metrics principles)
• HR Horizons » Blog Archive » Instantly Uncover Your Corporate Culture
  Outlines some informal ways to determine an organisation’s culture
  (tags: culture psychology behaviour stories informal principles)
• Whatnot At Work: The I Trumps The Team
  Ideas around idea generation and creativity. Is working alone or in a team better?
  (tags: creativity teams personality psychometrics principles)
• The Boggs e-Learning Chronicle: UK Companies Noted More Unproductive Labor Time Than Any Other Region Except Asia
  Costs of low productivity in the UK
  (tags: productivity costs metrics roi hr behaviours)
• Lack of influence keeps UK workers stuck in a rut
  What people want and what holds them back
  (tags: behaviours work influence work_life_balance aspirations)
• systematicHR - Human Resources Strategy and Human Resources Technology » 6 Traits of the Next Generation HR Leader
  Thoughts on HR of the future
  (tags: hr metrics strategy future principles)
• Mass Bay ODLG: What is the connection between personal transformation and organizational transformation?
  An interesting approach to change and self understanding
  (tags: psychology change behaviours self_awareness)
• The Hire Sense » Blog Archive » Selling the Complex
  Ideas on sales qualifying and saying no to unqualified clients
  (tags: sales qualifying)
• HR FUNDA: Employee Compatibility
  Shows how some people change their behaviour at work. May influence psychometrics
  (tags: psychometrics behaviour work_life_balance motivation)
• The Engaging Brand : Individual Development
  Personal development and possible changes in future direction
  (tags: training development self_awareness principles change)
• Businesspundit: Strategy Redux - The Execution Economy
  Strategy as a commodity, execution matters
  (tags: strategy execution principles change)
• Welcome to AJC! | ajc.com
  An article on the face validity, or lack, of psychometrics
  (tags: psychometrics recruitment principles)
• Ask Steve - Keeping Up With Accelerating Change
  An interesting ramble around social change, blogging and growth
  (tags: blogging change social growth self_development)
• When Not to Trust Your Gut — HBS Working Knowledge
  Different thoughts on intuition and rationality in negotiation
  (tags: negotiation learning leadership intuition rationality)
• The Boggs e-Learning Chronicle: No Ground Breaking Study Here: Lack of Necessary Workforce Skills Hinders Corporate Ability to Succeed, Accenture Research Finds
  More thoughts on why HR isn’t aligned with the business
  (tags: lists principles HR strategy talent-management execution)
• Leadership Turn » Blair’s Radical Mindset is a Traditional Leadership Trait
  A take on Blair’s leadership style
  (tags: leadership behaviours rational psychology intuitive)
• The Hire Sense » Blog Archive » Email Subject Lines That Hurt
  A funny CV and recruitment email
  (tags: recruitment humour)
• Funding gulf drives UK entrepreneurs across the pond
  Funding entrepreneurs
  (tags: vc startup capital seed_capital uk)
• What a Concept!: The Audience is up to Something
  Disintermediation of popular media
  (tags: disintermediation media change)

• Cognitive Edge: the Skeptics Dictionary
  Someone who doesn’t like MBTI
  (tags: MBTI psychology myers_briggs dislike)
• Workplace Blog: UK: Q: How do you make £1.6m a year and drive a Ferrari? A: Sell essays for £400
  The success of student plagarism
  (tags: students cheating plagarism)
• The next computer interface: your finger
  Control a computer using your finger
  (tags: computer interface control)
• The Two Most Important Management Secrets: The Pygmalion and Galatea Effects
  Thoughts on management psychology and behaviour
  (tags: management psychology behaviour)
• Cognitive Edge: A plague on social constructivism
  Perhaps this is a critique of the lexically contructed view of psychometrics
  (tags: psychology psychometrics lexical_approach)
• Diversity Working Today: Annoying habits of co-workers
  Annecdotal evidence around co-workers
  (tags: colleagues co-workers relationships group_dynamics)
• Management & Leadership Articles » 111 Ridiculously Obvious Thoughts on Selling
  Sales and sales, relationship ideas
  (tags: sales relationships)
• Talent Management Blog - Talent Management Metrics and Root Cause Analysis
  Ideas around popular HR metrics
  (tags: hr strategy roi metrics)
• YouTube - George Bush Gives Angela Merkel “Massage”
  George Bush giving Angela Merkel a massage
  (tags: funny video bush massage relationships)
• The Engaging Brand : Finance and HR Director
  Ideas aroun metrics, HR and roi
  (tags: hr strategy metrics roi lists)
• StlRecruiting: The New 1% Rule
  The 1% rule for online interaction
  (tags: metrics principles internet web2.0)
• The Performance & Talent Management Blog: Guest Post: Job competency models - Do they fit business?
  The role of competencies in mergers
  (tags: m&a competencies hr)
• Compensation Force: Performance Management: Measuring Behaviors Versus Outcomes - Part 2
  Measuring competencies and tracking this to performane and objectives
  (tags: hr strategy competency behaviours)
• Talent Management Blog - Memorandum of Understanding Between HR and Accounting
  Meeting between HR and Accountancy bodies
  (tags: hr metrics roi leadership)
• The Human Capitalist: Guest Post: Thomas Otter - Putting Capital in Human Capital Management
  Human capital views and the impact on HR
  (tags: hr strategy metrics roi accountants Principles profitability processs)
• The Performance & Talent Management Blog: Engagement crisis solved!
  Double edged rngagement survey results
  (tags: engagement behaviour work)
• The Performance & Talent Management Blog: Jack Welch loves HR
  Link to a Daily Telegraph article on the value of HR
  (tags: hr strategy Principles engagement)
• David Maister > Passion, People and Principles
  Multi-dimonesional organisations
  (tags: organisational_design personality behaviours Principles)

• Their results show that thought-leading content that’s educational in nature performed best as a call to action. If your interested, I also highlighted this here and here. You’ll find a link below to the complete study, but I thought you’d like to see
  marketing and lead generation chart
  (tags: marketing sales leads channels data chart)
• How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders? — HBS Working Knowledge
  review of Exectuvei Intelligence, seems to be similar to Emotional Intelligence etc.etc
  (tags: leadership intelligence executives EI)
• The first world map of happiness
  map of the world happiness
  (tags: happiness psychology people world)
• Leadership Turn » The Visual Learner
  An introduction to the classic nlp taxonomy of learning styles, auditory, visual, kinesthetic
  (tags: auditory visual kinesthetic nlp learning)
• The Office of Strategy Management — HBS Working Knowledge
  An article on the creation of a stratrgy execution office
  (tags: strategy execution planning office)
• 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
  Reasons not to get a job!
  (tags: social conditioning jobs employment work self-employment psychology people motivation happiness future)
• TalentPen Recruiting Software - TalentPen Recruiting Software
  Include Personality In Your Candidate Search While You Build a Talent Pool
  (tags: psychology recruitment web2.0 talent-management)
• HRmarketer.com Blog : Social Networking meets Recruitment and Staffing
  Social networking review
  (tags: web2.0 social-networking vc funding profitability)
• Random Thoughts from a CTO: Finding Your Voice
  Ideas on positing and finding a unique message
  (tags: leadership motivation positioning learning messages marketing)
• David Maister > Passion, People and Principles
  An approach to strategy and building something that lasts
  (tags: strategy long-term)
• Ask Steve - Blogging Questions
  Background on Steve Pavlina
  (tags: blogging motivation lifestyle)
• The Lazy Way to Success: The Secret to Making Lots of Money
  Interesting and offbeat thoughts on making money
  (tags: money profitability learning jobs)
• Half of us have imagined our boss naked during meetings
  You have to laugh!
  (tags: bosses work meetings boredom)
• Let Me Put That in Context | TPMCafe
  The rise of public debate and intellectualism. Appears to go against the grain of popular media
  (tags: media journalism change public intellectual)
• Play Well With Others: Develop Work Relationships
  More information highlighting relationships
  (tags: relationships work)
• HR FUNDA: HR and Human Touch
  The gap between HR and individual employees
  (tags: HR strategy engagement processs)
• e e learning: brain and learning principles
  Learning principles
  (tags: learning principles lists psychology)

“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.”

“This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.”

“It’s sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.”

“Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.”

“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.”

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”