Grab a Fistful of Talent
Kris Dunn’s Fistful of Talent is playing Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots with HR talent issues. Kris assembled a talented team of writers and thoughtful articles are being posted faster than Muhammad Ali can punch a speedbag. Stop by. It’s a knockout. (How’d I do on the fist theme?)
A Little Humility Goes a Long Way
Writing is an exercise in humility. The only way for it to be good is if it’s 100 percent right. Blogging? Multiply it times 100, because people can say some pretty tough things.
Two days ago we were celebrating KnowHR’s selection as one of HR World’s Top 25 HR Influencers for 2007. We got this comment today:
Hey,
You should watch out for browser compatibility for your blog. It looks so ugly in IE7.
Zoiks! “Ugly” is such an ugly word.
A Little Humility Goes a Long Way
I’ll learn my lesson about hubris as soon as I fly a little closer to the sun. As a reference, I’ll take under advisement the words of Sir Edmund Hillary, who died this week after 88 great years and was the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest [via CNN]:
“Awe, wonder, humility, pride, exaltation — these surely ought to be the confused emotions of the first men to stand on the highest peak on Earth, after so many others had failed,” Hillary noted.
“But my dominant reactions were relief and surprise. Relief because the long grind was over and the unattainable had been attained. And surprise, because it had happened to me, old Ed Hillary, the beekeeper, once the star pupil of the Tuakau District School, but no great shakes at Auckland Grammar [high school] and a no-hoper at university, first to the top of Everest. I just didn’t believe it.
What’s Humility Have to Do with HR?
That’s a joke, right?
KnowHR Named by HR World as One of the 25 Top HR Influencers of 2007
Every once in a while you get an e-mail that brings an instant smile to your face. Here’s a note from HR World one that did that yesterday:
Hello Frank and Sarah,
Congratulations! I’m writing to notify you that HR World has recognized you both as two of the Top 25 HR Influencers of 2007.
HR World selected some very impressive people. We’re honored to be on the list.
Corporate Blogs Are Dead
If you haven’t started corporate blogging yet, forget it. That was yesterday. Like, so 2007. Today it’s about having a conversation with your customers. Know who’s doing it best? Dell. Yep, those guys.
Check out Dell’s Ideastorm. They have established a community that’s giving them ideas about how to do business better. The cool part? They listen.
KnowHR Blog at the Top of the HR Blogs Power Rankings
Okay, this is just fun. And I’m honored. This week, KnowHR Blog (yep, I’m speaking in the third person, like Deion Sanders) tied for first at the top of the HR Blogs Power Rankings.
The Power Rankings are done by The HR Capitalist with a straightforward methodology:
The short version the methodology is that I have my Google Reader set up to read all 112 blogs for the period in question. Using the star feature, I identify the entries I would recommend to my HR colleagues. The more recommendations, the higher the power ranking and the poll position.
The really fun part is getting read the excellent HR-related articles that were compiled by The HR Capitalist. I subscribed to the The HR Capitalist’s Google Reader feed, as well. You can see a compilation of all the winning articles there.
You can also look at the articles I share on the KnowHR Blog Google Reader by looking here. For those of you who are RSS readers, here’s the RSS feed for those articles.
More fun ahead. Thanks, Kris!
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