Archive for August, 2006

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Change Management Starts with Changing Minds

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Managing effective change is essential in human resources. After all, program implementation depends on doing something different than what we were doing yesterday.
There are numerous change management theories, but we’re a long way from a unifying theory on the topic. However, that doesn’t mean the change management battle is a guessing game. Howard Gardner, the [...]

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KnowHR Quotes: #1

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Most conversations are simply monologues
delivered in the presence of witnesses.
–Margaret Millar

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Creating Communities: Words of Wisdom from Craig Newmark

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Technology is an essential ingredient for organizational communication, but it certainly isn’t the only thing. Far from it. Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, one of the web’s biggest communities, offered this view in Are You On Craig’s List?:
[L]et’s be clear: The Net is not about technology, it’s about people — a fact that is obvious [...]

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Power Naps Are Good for Your Employees

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Being a big fan of the afternoon power nap, I’m always on the lookout for data to substantiate my position that napping is good. I’ve used the “Einstein, Churchill and Edison always took afternoon naps” rationale, but in our modern age those references are getting a bit dated (plus I get reminded that I’m [...]

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Beautiful Evidence: Presentation Design Matters

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Edward Tufte, the graphic presentation guru, who was called “The Leonardo DaVinci of Data” by the New York Times, has recently published Beautiful Evidence. He describes the book about presenting information by saying, “Beautiful Evidence is about how seeing turns into showing, how empirical observations turn into explanations and evidence presentations.” If you don’t own [...]

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