You Don’t Know Anything (and Neither Do I)
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ~ Socrates Scholars are fairly certain that Socrates never actually wrote anything. Most of the philosophical marvels we take to be Socratic...
View ArticleThe Discrimination That Nobody Challenges
If you know me or have read any of my blog posts you probably are aware that I am a baby boomer citizen with a low threshold of tolerance for age discrimination. I have a reputation for challenging...
View ArticleMay I Have a Few Minutes of Your Time?
There are lies, damned lies and statistics. ~ Mark Twain There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. ~ Rex Stout Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a...
View ArticleBlog Soup – From the Archives of Make HR Happen v.10
This is a re-posting of five previous articles from Make HR Happen. From the Greatest Generation To the Degraded Generation - We live in an age when everything and everyone must fit...
View ArticleBlog Soup – From the Archives of Make HR Happen v.12
This is a re-posting of five previous articles from Make HR Happen by Tom Bolt. Give Candidates Better Experience, Not Bill of Rights - There is nowhere a more emphatic symbol of a...
View ArticleNetworking: The Barrier Buster
When we talk about networking, it conjures up a broad foggy blur of reaching out globally to individuals who may have immediate impact on our goals and desires, but for the most part the network is...
View ArticleWitnessing Generations from 20/20 Hindsight
I love people watching. I am also a story teller. An exercise in creative writing for me is to people-watch on a train or in a waiting room and cast them in a miniseries in my mind. My grandmother...
View ArticleDefense Against Dismissivism
I have not done an exhaustive study on the subject, but it seems to be human nature to simply dismiss people that are not like us. The first lesson in my [almost] adult life was when I was working a...
View ArticleFrom the Archives of Make HR Happen – Never Ending Talk About Generations
A pet peeve of mine is to hear so-called experts about various generations rant about age discrimination while perpetuating the myths of generational differences through their arguments. I probably...
View ArticleOff the Grid: Not Necessarily HR – Kids Do Matter
There was a time in my career that I was very self conscious about my age… actually two times. Just starting out was tough because with no experience it seemed that I had more energy to burn than...
View ArticleOff the Grid: Not Necessarily HR – Normal Parenting
As someone who has tried to unravel the complexity of interpersonal relations in human resources, I wouldn’t touch the conflict over progressive parenting with a ten foot pole. There probably should be...
View ArticleRecruiting Fables – Using Sorcerer Magic
Once upon a time there was an old Sorcerer who had become known throughout the land as the perfect source (pun most definitely intended… as you have probably already guessed) of all things magical. He...
View ArticleReinforcing Generational Stereotypes
If there is any hot button that raises my fur it is when people make assumptions about me or others by assigning them to a particular generational bucket. Not being a fan of oversimplified...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Thinking About Our Prejudices
The topics related to waging war on discrimination, stereotypes, bias, and prejudice seem to be popular among my readers. I have often said that I write mostly for myself, but there is a certain...
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