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After his resignation was announced today, Mint had this story. Shows how much a business (even something as delivery focused as IT services) depends on sales, that a Finance turned HR head can't really hope to land the top job without sales and marketing experience

Read more below

Challenges and Trends for HR services

1 save http://peoplematters.in/articles/cover-story/cover-story-the-industry-of-hr

Some excerpts from the latest article I wrote

SuccessFactors into Social Learning

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HR software firm SuccessFactors has acquired Jambok reports TechCrunch. This is interesting because it shows a sign in the HRMS space. Some time ago a company like SF would have taken over a LMS or eLearning company to shore up their offering, while now it is focusing on social software related firms like CubeTree and Jambok.

Read more about the news and Jambok below:

The 4 kinds of Learning

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As a HR professional one always thinks of training but as I mentioned before, learning is a much more broader term. I came across this interesting article which focusses on the different kinds of learning. I've blogged about connectivism before and I suspect would hear more about it in the future.

Here are the 4 kinds of learning

Peter Block says HR's Compensation Philosophy leads to unethical behavior

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This is an interesting view. Peter Block, author of the bestselling book on Organizational Consulting, Flawless Consulting, says that HR compensation and benefits systems encourage unethical corporate behavior.
He singles out stock prices and ESOPs along with variable pay for encouraging short term thinking. Here's an excerpt of his thoughts at India's leading HR publication People Matters:

Blogging about bad news on the corporate blog

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A principle factor of open and transparent organizations is open and transparent communication. The aspect is easy to think about when the news is good. But what do blogging CEOs do when they have to make tough decisions, like layoffs?
Do they stick to the open system? And if yes, do they regret it?
Personally, I think the way to open and transparent organizations 2.0 is a one-way street. Once you have committed to it, you cannot go back.
But what are the business benefits or risks?

Here's an interesting article on the PR Daily.

HR Blogging to be accepted for US HR certifications

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This is going to be interesting and I'd be interested to see whether the decision of the HRCI to accept "fact based 700 word blog posts" for recertification credits would encourage more and more HR professionals in the US to start blogging.

This is hugely progressive of the HRCI and hopefully other industry bodies will also recognise blogging as a way to showcase expertise and give credit for it.

Here are the details from the HRCI site:

Sharing the Journey

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Makes others fellow travelers.

Bombay Addict ruminates what makes him share deep personal details on Twitter

Quora is not like Blogging

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I really don't think of Quora as blogging. More in the nature of Linkedin Answers or Yahoo! Answers. But Scoble does make a point as to what it borrows from.

I don't think Quora will replace or even be a substitute for blogging by a long shot. The big value it has is the quality of people who are answering, IMHO.

Understanding Meta-Products

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Hadn't ever heard of this before

Social CRM and Employees

1 save http://interlucation.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/youre-not-social-enough/

Article on what it takes to make the transition from CRM to Social CRM. However most of such discussion is missing the critical point of getting employees ready to make that transition - and whose role that is

A lot of HR people now are approaching me to conduct "social media awareness" sessions - so I guess is the movement to really becoming a "Social Business" is still some way off in India

Top 50 Human Resources Blogs

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Got listed here :)

The 75 Best Business Blogs of 2009 | Business Pundit

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Got listed in this amazing list :)

Answer First Presentation

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How to communicate a persuasive idea

The 2 indias - the haves and the have-nots

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Gagan Adlakha quoted in Economic Times

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Taking Learning out of the classroom

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Jobs at Gautamghosh.net

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HR becomes Humor Resources?

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Case Study – Developing the Training group’s capability

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