The Bamboo Project Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Jane Hart writes an interesting post on top-down vs. bottom-up approaches to nurturing social media in organizations, making the excellent point that bottom up support of existing social media activities will work better than imposing social media use from the top down. What I've been observing in my work with clients, though, is a tendency to use top-down strategies to support bottom-up initiatives, especially in organizations where they're just delving into social media use. .

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David Zinger

DECEMBER 7, 2010

In Transit. Fostering Connection, Collaboration, and Transformation to Move From Enraged to Engaged. (A Winnipeg Transit Story). An interview with Helen Maupin. I had the good fortune to interview Helen Maupin in Winnipeg recently. Helen is involved in Whole Systems Design with the legacybowesgroup and was involved in a large scale initiative with Winnipeg Transit.

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45 Things

DECEMBER 10, 2010

When I was in college, I relied greatly on the advice of my school newspaper advisor, who had just left a bureau job for UPI to enter the college teaching arena. I found his advice invaluable -- much more so that some of my professors who hadn't been in the "real" working world in more than two decades. Many college students today feel the same way.

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True Faith HR

DECEMBER 7, 2010

'The use of social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, in the classroom is growing, as is student time spent on exploring such sites. However, little research has been done to examine the impact on grades. Does actively participating in social media (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, blogs, YouTube, etc.) impact one''s academic performance? Is social media usage impacted by the ownership of smart phones?

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Strategic HCM

DECEMBER 6, 2010

'You’ve hopefully seen my posts on Strategic HCM reviewing the Enterprise 2.0 conference I attended in Santa Clara, California recently. I’ve also been posting on Social Advantage and you’ll find more posts there on developing social cultures , and selecting social technologies etc. The point I want to make about social technologies is that buyers need to be really clear about what they’re trying to do with the systems that they buy.

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Quickbase

DECEMBER 8, 2010

We all know micromanaging is bad, either from personal experiences, or from the countless articles online that tell us so. I believe that nobody really wants to be a micromanager… in theory. But if you are very talented at what you do, it can be difficult to resist micromanaging in the day-to-day. This is especially […].

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True Faith HR

DECEMBER 9, 2010

'I was perusing my alma mater''s student newspaper when I came across this article : "Re-posting on WikiLeaks could affect job prospects." The reporter, Summer Ballentine, writes: For some students, posting links to WikiLeaks on social networking sites might be another hurdle to landing a job in an already competitive job market. WikiLeaks, an organization working to provide government and leaked information to the public via the Internet, released additional confidential government documents to

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45 Things

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The news that Pfizer's 55-year-old CEO has decided to retire because he is burned out and over-stressed by the job probably struck a chord with many people. Probably millions of people. The difference, however, is that while Jeffrey Kindler is likely to retire with enough money to buy an island and have a personal slushy machine, the rest of America's workers -- including those older than Kindler -- will continue working.

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David Zinger

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Are you taking time for ritual or is time just taking you along for a ride? Peter Bregman just wrote an excellent post on the value of ritual in your workday. Here are 3 exceptional snippets from his powerful piece in the Harvard Business Review blog: The power of ritual is profound and under-appreciated. Mostly, I think, it’s because we live in a time-starved culture, and ritual is time-indulgent.

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Evil HR Lady

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Dear Evil HR Lady, A young lady I work with is very involved in her church and likes to talk about her beliefs and all the other things that come along with her particular flavor of worship. While I don’t mind her talking about 90% of what she does, sometimes she crosses the line and goes from a friendly conversation/lighthearted debate to some pretty intense, very awkward blaming, condemning, and preaching.

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Nobscot

DECEMBER 9, 2010

'Never mind The Apprentice. We have learning lessons galore from another reality competition The Amazing Race. If you want to learn about winning teams, this is the place to go.Race 17 has three top contender pairs whose team dynamics are very different from one another. Let''s take a look.Team: Thomas and JillThomas and Jill, a dating couple, have been strong contenders from Race One.

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Strategic HCM

DECEMBER 7, 2010

'One of the main events I’m going to speaking at in January is the HR Directors Business Summit in Birmingham, UK. I’ll be facilitating a joint tweet-up and twitter / social media introduction for new users, and also presenting on HR 2.0. Other speakers include: Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School Jill McDonald, CEO & President of McDonald’s UK, President, Northern Division, McDonald’s Europe Norman Pickavance, HR Director, Morrisons Therese Proctor, HR Di

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David Zinger

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Percolating a human connected view of the workplace is a key task for leaders. Michael Lee Stallard , a terrific employee engagement friend, along with Howard Behar , a former president of Starbucks, have written a powerful and needed post: Overcoming Leadership Myopia. 2 Zingers. Here are two snippets to whet your appetite for more: In our quest to produce results, we have lost sight of the importance of engaging people.

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Evil HR Lady

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Dear Evil HR Lady, Our organization has lost several talented people. They are dissatisfied because of disparities in salaries and poor work environment. What should we do? I think you should stop aiming for perfection and go for good enough. Is Perfectionism Killing Your Business Plans?

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Nobscot

DECEMBER 10, 2010

'One of the secrets to successful onboarding and socialization of new hires is to make sure they are fully informed on everything that they need to know. Let me amend that. New hires need to be informed on not just what they need to know but also what they want to know.Most companies fall short on this one because we rarely stop to think from the newcomer''s perspective.

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Strategic HCM

DECEMBER 9, 2010

'In 2011, I’ll also be delivering five of my own webinars, as well as continuing to participate on those of other leading organisations and commentators. Topics and dates of my webinars will be: A review of HR2.0 opportunities, technologies and case studies (it’s not just about social recruiting!): 3.00pm Tuesday 15th March The social business – what it is and how HR, Enterprise 2.0 and other tools and approaches can be used to develop it : 3.00pm Tuesday 3rd May Think DiffeHRently: opportunitie

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David Zinger

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Stuck in training room. trainer drones on and on and. pray bee stings his tongue.

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Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

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Evil HR Lady

DECEMBER 10, 2010

If you manage actual humans, you'll most likely run into a person who believes that whenever something doesn't go their way it's because of discrimination. Here's some help to manage them.

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Working Girl

DECEMBER 6, 2010

'Great reading and happy holidays over at Jane Perdue''s Get Your Leadership Big On blog!

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Strategic HCM

DECEMBER 10, 2010

'I’ve been posting on Social Advantage about Josh Bernoff’s book, Empowered, triggered by a incident with the Trainline , discussed on Twitter last week. In the follow-up post I noted that Bernoff’s points about mass connectors and mavens should apply to employees as well: The first is the idea of mass online influencers who help spread trends through the web.

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Workday

DECEMBER 9, 2010

'In a prospect meeting a while ago we were explaining that with our HR system you could finally get a good answer to the question “Who works here?” The prospect smiled and said, “You know, that’s the wrong question. It’s not who works here, it’s who here works?

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Evil HR Lady

DECEMBER 10, 2010

If you manage actual humans, you'll most likely run into a person who believes that whenever something doesn't go their way it's because of discrimination. Here's some help to manage them.

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Strategic HCM

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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Strategic HCM

DECEMBER 8, 2010

'One of the other events I’ll be attending later in 2011 is the Economist Group’s Talent Management Summit. This blog will also be acting as supporting media for this event, so you can plan to be hearing lots about it here. The draft agenda includes: PART 1: SETTING THE TALENT AGENDA FOR MAXIMUM BUSINESS IMPACT CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION - Paul Lewis, Managing Editor, Executive Briefing, Economist Intelligence Unit EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: LEADING THE TALENT DRIVEN BUSINESS PANEL: PROMOTING

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Evil HR Lady

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Dear Evil HR Lady, A young lady I work with is very involved in her church and likes to talk about her beliefs and all the other things that come along with her particular flavor of worship. While I don’t mind her talking about 90% of what she does, sometimes she crosses the line and goes from a friendly conversation/lighthearted debate to some pretty intense, very awkward blaming, condemning, and preaching.

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Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

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Evil HR Lady

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Dear Evil HR Lady, Our organization has lost several talented people. They are dissatisfied because of disparities in salaries and poor work environment. What should we do? I think you should stop aiming for perfection and go for good enough. Is Perfectionism Killing Your Business Plans?

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Strategic HCM

DECEMBER 7, 2010

'I’ve a few things going on next year I want to tell you about. One of these is that I’ll be appearing in HR Magazine ’s new series of web debates and discussions, HR Vision , along with: Tanith Dodge, HR director, Marks and Spencer Adrienne McFarland, HR director, Sage Martin Birchall, managing director, High Fliers Dr Carsten Sørensen, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Management Sandra Campopiano, HR director, Premier Farnell Bob Marsden, director of people a

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