Archive for January, 2009
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
I had the pleasure of interviewing the co-CEO, Daniel Debow, of a Toronto based startup, Rypple. He reached out to me after I had posted my initial thoughts about them in a previous blog post, Making Rypples in Performance Management. He took 45 minutes talking to me about Rypple, what they are ...
Posted in Creating Efficiency, Startups | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 12th, 2009
I read a good article in The Economist about a company called Rypple, that undoubtedly will be making some splashes about how Companies think about Performance Management.
Rypple has created an anonymous, twitteresque like concept around the constant feedback that Gen Y'ers crave. You can ping your boss or co-workers to death by ...
Posted in Generational Management, Performance Reviews, social media | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
All good things and all bad things must come from the employee's first line supervisor. This is called leadership, to do anything else is shirking responsibility and undermining the supervisor's authority. Oh yeah, and don't make HR do it.
Dan Hall
Seattle Human Resources Manager
Posted in Adding Value, Human Resource Practices | No Comments »
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
With the downturn in the economy, I have noticed a distinct increase in recruiting solitications as well as the number of hardcore contractors looking for work. About six months ago, I would receive one maybe two calls at most from a recruiting agency (I have my calls screened and don't ...
Posted in recruiting | No Comments »
