I recently wrote on an earlier blog "Nostalgia, A Thing Of The Past Or A Useful Tool For The Future?"
I cannot help but think back of the way things were. I know; I know several have stated that the past is the past. Nevertheless, have you ever given it any thought? Where would you be if not for the past? Would you be right here typing on this thread if you had not had something that lead to this technology in your life back in the day? Maybe it was just a typing class. However, it was something. So I will not sit around and even think the past was just that the past.
If it had not been for President Kennedy back in his day, would we have ever evolved to the space age, as we know it? Sure, we would have made it there, but when, and would it be as we know it today and would we have been number one? Look at what we are going through today. One can hope based on opinions, facts, and theory that the next movement toward jobs of the future will be lessons learned and better achievements should this ever happen again, and let us face it, we will, maybe not myself but someone will go through this ordeal again, and again. Let us hope we all are learning, young and old, something about hiring people, communications, becoming more personable and expectations from recruiters to jobseekers.
If we don't learn, life as we know it may have been hard before, but the future will not only be hard, but it will be lonely because if we continue to apply the way things are being done today the only hope we have is sitting on our porch in our rocking chair moving back and forth and the only thing left to think about will be the good ole days!
Showing posts with label Things the past has taught us. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Things the past has taught us. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
The Blame Game
Last night I got into a discussion and as Peter Griffin from Family Guy stated in a job he took for a news station... "What Really Grinds My Gears" was the fact that someone was talking about the state the economy is in and who is to blame for it. Of course there are plenty people still out there pointing fingers. Following is what I replied as I'm objective enough to know it is not a matter of whose fault it is but whose going to take action to get us back on track.
I think personally that we really need to be passed these pointing fingers of who inherited what from whom and how they got it. If you read history, this sort of reaction to the economy was coming for the last 40 years. It has been clearly stated by every president in a state of the union message. We need to do something, or future generations will suffer. What will we do? They always brought it up, always said where we need to focus but never had any answers and each has simply passed it down.
Despite who is at fault and who dropped the ball and who should keep running, we need to be more focused on what government as a whole will do to cure the issues at hand. Voting to me is an awesome responsibility but if it is merely just a knee jerk reaction to get the public to listen to the promises and the typical election is won by someone who says their interest is that of the populist and the result being voted electoral college which is really a joke in my book since you have no clue who’s voting for the people or for their own pocket book and no one is going to listen, then the general population needs to react differently.
The main issue is not who’s fault it is but reducing the amount government gets toward spending and the lobbyist who continue to fund their own causes leaving we the people groveling in lines trying to show we’re not spoiled, wasted, or the bad omen of unemployment. The focus from main stream politicians should not worry about the Ob-care right now, or other controversial programs that support bogus pork, but it should be full focus on building a better public confidence so companies will have the want to train and put people back to work. Being unemployed is not only hurting the jobless population, it is also hurting business in general and the government. No taxes in, no taxes out. No money made, no product purchased.
Until mainstream realizes that they may be capable of their own expenditures, they are really forcing the typical business to have to support the unemployed also. One way or another someone is paying something for someone who is unemployed.
We need to really get passed the blame game and focus on how to make touchdowns!
I think personally that we really need to be passed these pointing fingers of who inherited what from whom and how they got it. If you read history, this sort of reaction to the economy was coming for the last 40 years. It has been clearly stated by every president in a state of the union message. We need to do something, or future generations will suffer. What will we do? They always brought it up, always said where we need to focus but never had any answers and each has simply passed it down.
Despite who is at fault and who dropped the ball and who should keep running, we need to be more focused on what government as a whole will do to cure the issues at hand. Voting to me is an awesome responsibility but if it is merely just a knee jerk reaction to get the public to listen to the promises and the typical election is won by someone who says their interest is that of the populist and the result being voted electoral college which is really a joke in my book since you have no clue who’s voting for the people or for their own pocket book and no one is going to listen, then the general population needs to react differently.
The main issue is not who’s fault it is but reducing the amount government gets toward spending and the lobbyist who continue to fund their own causes leaving we the people groveling in lines trying to show we’re not spoiled, wasted, or the bad omen of unemployment. The focus from main stream politicians should not worry about the Ob-care right now, or other controversial programs that support bogus pork, but it should be full focus on building a better public confidence so companies will have the want to train and put people back to work. Being unemployed is not only hurting the jobless population, it is also hurting business in general and the government. No taxes in, no taxes out. No money made, no product purchased.
Until mainstream realizes that they may be capable of their own expenditures, they are really forcing the typical business to have to support the unemployed also. One way or another someone is paying something for someone who is unemployed.
We need to really get passed the blame game and focus on how to make touchdowns!
Self-Distruction
I understand a lot about technology. I might not be IT savvy, but I do have a considerable amount of knowledge toward what we deal with today, but what I do not get is how upcoming do not seem to get it. We all watch sci-fi. Let us face it we have seen it happen over our lifetime, just was not as bad. We had space movies, and reality taught us to get to the moon. We had Hal the robot who controlled 2001 A Space Odyssey, so we all assumed one day we'll have a space station and we created Skylab. However, why don‘t we ever get it?
We sit around now and complain about jobs. Does anyone not see where we are headed? Maybe not in my life time but at least in my kid’s lifetime, there will be some sort of robotics that eliminates the welfare of an honest days work. We did see i-ROBOT right? Then I forget the name of the movie, but Green something I believe.... but it is where government simply gathered people up and imprisoned them for being around the age of 60 or so. Then they annihilated them and used them for fertilizer. Ok far fetch maybe, but think about it, if Hollywood can think it up and dream it up and we've seen what their sci-fi buddies have created that turned into reality, anything is possible.
My point is doesn't anyone see that the more we progress and I'm not against progression at all but when it affects mankind do we not see now things we're doing daily can progress to the point where we are hurting ourselves. Greed in Corporations will become outdated. Money will become obsolete. So you are getting rich now but one day when you have all this money and a one-world government decides for you that it is worthless and now you will answer to them then what will greed have accomplished?
Those list from the good ole days are true and shed light, but what is next... You kids have it so easy, I remember when we had to take the space shuttle to work just to earn enough to stay alive, and today you kids just beam yourself around the globe and create virtual mistresses to come in an baby-sit y'all. Y'all have it way to easy.
Fiction yes, but to me, it is the future and we just do not realize we are our own worst enemy, and we will eventually self-destruct!
We sit around now and complain about jobs. Does anyone not see where we are headed? Maybe not in my life time but at least in my kid’s lifetime, there will be some sort of robotics that eliminates the welfare of an honest days work. We did see i-ROBOT right? Then I forget the name of the movie, but Green something I believe.... but it is where government simply gathered people up and imprisoned them for being around the age of 60 or so. Then they annihilated them and used them for fertilizer. Ok far fetch maybe, but think about it, if Hollywood can think it up and dream it up and we've seen what their sci-fi buddies have created that turned into reality, anything is possible.
My point is doesn't anyone see that the more we progress and I'm not against progression at all but when it affects mankind do we not see now things we're doing daily can progress to the point where we are hurting ourselves. Greed in Corporations will become outdated. Money will become obsolete. So you are getting rich now but one day when you have all this money and a one-world government decides for you that it is worthless and now you will answer to them then what will greed have accomplished?
Those list from the good ole days are true and shed light, but what is next... You kids have it so easy, I remember when we had to take the space shuttle to work just to earn enough to stay alive, and today you kids just beam yourself around the globe and create virtual mistresses to come in an baby-sit y'all. Y'all have it way to easy.
Fiction yes, but to me, it is the future and we just do not realize we are our own worst enemy, and we will eventually self-destruct!
Nostalgia, A Thing Of The Past Or A Useful Tool For The Future
I recently had a discussion with a group on nostalgia. I heard a lot of comments on why looking back is no way to pursue the future. What happened in the past is just that the past.
I had to stop and give some thought to those comments. Is that true is it merely the past and there's nothing to gain from it? Looking at it from the good ole days and applying it to our current economic conditions. How true cocould this possibly be? If nostalgia is nothing more than the past and it cannot help us in the future why do we teach history in classrooms?Don't we learn anything from history especially on helping us establish the future?
After careful consideration here is what I've come up with. Nostalgia is what keeps us grounded. The ones who are paying it forward are those that know what paying it forward means. X&Y genres do not see it so easily and do not recognize it so kindly. They expect. The belief of nostalgia will not will get the next genres nowhere, why, because they fail to want to learn it. As the kids say today, the old people are talking about the ole days. Very few acknowledge how much those ole days contributed to what they have and are able to progress into doing today. Without those nostalgia thoughts, there really would not be no today to pay forward!
The more the conversation went on the response was nostalgia is nothing more than the older people trying to be self righteous and looking for someone to give back to them. The point being made about the genres X&Y were that they know all about paying forward they don't need nostalgia because they may be geeks but they help out around the community.
I do not find nostalgia self-righteousness thinking of simpler times and maybe I should restate; many of the X&Y genres do not see it so clearly. My kids volunteer also for civic things. But it does come to a point where self-righteous is what we see nowadays with many who do not recognize the generations before them as being the ground work that has enabled them to be where they are and where they are heading.
I have always appreciated the stories my folks have told us from the days gone by. I realized from an early age if not for what they went through, there is no way I would be doing or was able to accomplish what I have accomplished.
Even though my kids volunteer for civic activities and help out, ask them how they got to where they are? Simply stated they will say, Dad, those were old days you grew up in, today things have changed we do not have to worry about that, we have electronics. Is that not self-righteous? My daughter’s boyfriend one evening after inviting him over to have dinner with us sat on the porch with me and we were talking about jobs and the like. I brought up how I remember when obtaining a job was not so hard. I remember how a bunch of friends would even go on a weekend and unload boxcars of oilfield mud, and fertilizers that were in 100 lb sacks and leave at the end of the day with 10 bucks and how to make extra dollars we would go out in the potato fields and help them dig potatoes for $15 a day.
There is nothing self-righteous about that. That was the truth. His response was, Mr. Dennis, I can honestly say I know nothing about what true work is, and he raised his hands and they were softer than a baby's tush... and replied.. all I know is how to operate computers!
I am glad we were able to give our kids more, in fact, that was the idea, but it was not the idea to say hey, let us just disconnect with those that made it happen!
Self righteous is all around us, look at the interviews you go on today when you meet someone who is younger than you, they don’t want to hire you because they don’t want to be telling their mothers and dads what to do, but they have that entitlement belief, I deserve this, a good example was someone I know who went to an interview and the interviewer was in his twenties. He totally insulted this person, the interviewee. Once the owner which was the father found out he called the individual in with the son who was the interviewer and got to the bottom of this situation. The son came clean thinking he was the big shot of the operations. Undoubtably the son was discharged from his position and the interviewee, was left with some dignity.That was arrogance and self-righteous, you owe me I do not owe you!
I did have to agree that there are people out there from the ole days who
seem to view things through rose-colored glasses. As I responded I stated
I agreed that people cannot view things through the rose-colored glasses as stated. As I stated, nostalgia is great for keeping you grounded, but if you're hiding behind something and can't accept the fact that you have to embrace what is at hand today in front of you, you're simply fooling yourself, no matter what genre you come from. I do not see nostalgia as a bad thing if (like anything else) used in its appropriate manner. I use it as an appreciation for where I am and where I am headed. Like I stated, I'm quite familiar with nowadays technology and I can embrace it, it has made things in my life easier.
Nevertheless, I will state do I wish for simpler times, most definitely, will I see it in my lifetime... I seriously doubt it, but I can pray!
I had to stop and give some thought to those comments. Is that true is it merely the past and there's nothing to gain from it? Looking at it from the good ole days and applying it to our current economic conditions. How true cocould this possibly be? If nostalgia is nothing more than the past and it cannot help us in the future why do we teach history in classrooms?Don't we learn anything from history especially on helping us establish the future?
After careful consideration here is what I've come up with. Nostalgia is what keeps us grounded. The ones who are paying it forward are those that know what paying it forward means. X&Y genres do not see it so easily and do not recognize it so kindly. They expect. The belief of nostalgia will not will get the next genres nowhere, why, because they fail to want to learn it. As the kids say today, the old people are talking about the ole days. Very few acknowledge how much those ole days contributed to what they have and are able to progress into doing today. Without those nostalgia thoughts, there really would not be no today to pay forward!
The more the conversation went on the response was nostalgia is nothing more than the older people trying to be self righteous and looking for someone to give back to them. The point being made about the genres X&Y were that they know all about paying forward they don't need nostalgia because they may be geeks but they help out around the community.
I do not find nostalgia self-righteousness thinking of simpler times and maybe I should restate; many of the X&Y genres do not see it so clearly. My kids volunteer also for civic things. But it does come to a point where self-righteous is what we see nowadays with many who do not recognize the generations before them as being the ground work that has enabled them to be where they are and where they are heading.
I have always appreciated the stories my folks have told us from the days gone by. I realized from an early age if not for what they went through, there is no way I would be doing or was able to accomplish what I have accomplished.
Even though my kids volunteer for civic activities and help out, ask them how they got to where they are? Simply stated they will say, Dad, those were old days you grew up in, today things have changed we do not have to worry about that, we have electronics. Is that not self-righteous? My daughter’s boyfriend one evening after inviting him over to have dinner with us sat on the porch with me and we were talking about jobs and the like. I brought up how I remember when obtaining a job was not so hard. I remember how a bunch of friends would even go on a weekend and unload boxcars of oilfield mud, and fertilizers that were in 100 lb sacks and leave at the end of the day with 10 bucks and how to make extra dollars we would go out in the potato fields and help them dig potatoes for $15 a day.
There is nothing self-righteous about that. That was the truth. His response was, Mr. Dennis, I can honestly say I know nothing about what true work is, and he raised his hands and they were softer than a baby's tush... and replied.. all I know is how to operate computers!
I am glad we were able to give our kids more, in fact, that was the idea, but it was not the idea to say hey, let us just disconnect with those that made it happen!
Self righteous is all around us, look at the interviews you go on today when you meet someone who is younger than you, they don’t want to hire you because they don’t want to be telling their mothers and dads what to do, but they have that entitlement belief, I deserve this, a good example was someone I know who went to an interview and the interviewer was in his twenties. He totally insulted this person, the interviewee. Once the owner which was the father found out he called the individual in with the son who was the interviewer and got to the bottom of this situation. The son came clean thinking he was the big shot of the operations. Undoubtably the son was discharged from his position and the interviewee, was left with some dignity.That was arrogance and self-righteous, you owe me I do not owe you!
I did have to agree that there are people out there from the ole days who
seem to view things through rose-colored glasses. As I responded I stated
I agreed that people cannot view things through the rose-colored glasses as stated. As I stated, nostalgia is great for keeping you grounded, but if you're hiding behind something and can't accept the fact that you have to embrace what is at hand today in front of you, you're simply fooling yourself, no matter what genre you come from. I do not see nostalgia as a bad thing if (like anything else) used in its appropriate manner. I use it as an appreciation for where I am and where I am headed. Like I stated, I'm quite familiar with nowadays technology and I can embrace it, it has made things in my life easier.
Nevertheless, I will state do I wish for simpler times, most definitely, will I see it in my lifetime... I seriously doubt it, but I can pray!
Monday, September 20, 2010
If I Could Ask A Millennia One Question, What Would It Be and What is Your Reasoning for Asking
My question would be, “What’s with the ME syndrome”?
Someone has already asked about “The You Owe Me Syndrome,” which I guess can be a part of the ME syndrome.
My curiosity of why I ask this is…
Why do the Millennia feel that someone owes the “ME”? No one owes anyone anything. We are all responsible for our own destiny. The ole adage is work hard, succeed and build a life based on your choosing not based on what someone will give you. When I was growing up you could always count on people. Today’s society steered mainly by the ME attitude is that I cannot count on you unless you get something out of it. I say this with much experience. Having three children, 2 born in the mid, late 80’s, and 1 born at the beginning of the 90’s. The typical Gen Y. They were not brought up that way. They were always taught to respect everyone, lend a hand, and never put your self above the unfortunate. However, their mannerism and attitude has changed from watching their own friends take advantage of those around them. Their response is “Why shouldn’t it be about ME”? As an example, a friend who never sought pity or a handout became unemployed. As he stated, “where were my kids?” When my parents were in need, the children were there to count on so they did not lose everything they worked for all their life. At least the attempt was made to assist. Today’s ME attitude, is you are on your own. I am not saying that it is about the friend being of the ME mentality at all. He’s taken responsibility for his demise and probably would not let his kids help out because he knows they’re not in a position to help, however there is no attempt. None of them ever calls their dad and ask how are you, anything WE can do for you, do you have a place to sleep, and do you have a meal to eat. Nope, it is all about ME. ME has to go party on Friday and Saturday nights. However, ME has no problems when the father was working to come to him asking for a handout. When I got divorced and paying heavily in child support, what was the ME asking, “He doesn’t send ME any money”. They received what could be afforded. Why would you ask a ME question like that? Because they think, they’re owed something. (Note these are just examples, their own friends asked for the same handouts when their parents split up, so it is not stated for sympathy toward anyone, making one think your kids have bad values, it is all around us) Society has changed, and I realize change is good, but not at the detriment of losing value, compassion, and responsibility.
Our country was built on the complexity of WE not the simpleton of ME. It’s in the Declaration of Independence; “WE”hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. In the The Gettysburg Address; “WE" can not dedicate -- "We" can not consecrate -- "WE" can not hallow. The Constitution;"We" the people would write the law --. Do you actually think everyone will always bend to your every whim? You cannot succeed by yourself. As they say, it takes a village to raise a child.
Maybe the Millennia’s do not understand that statement. Are they thinking they were put here to operate by themselves? Can you imagine a global retreat toward only one and everyone being that one? Not everyone can be leaders. You do have to have followers and I’m not suggesting anyone stop striving for the best or stop wanting to become a leader, but what are you going to do when everyone you attempt to lead chooses not to follow because they think along the same lines as “You didn’t hear me say WE, I said ME”? What will you do? What will you do when things do not go your way? In the job force, when you clash or don’t like the job being given, are you merely going to say, “this is not a WE society, this is about the ME society”?
Team effort is about WE not about ME doing it your way. You won’t survive under that analogy. When the top boss says do it his way, it is his company and the team says, I don’t think so, this is not a WE group this about you, you know the one that stresses ME so much and now the team says WE are going home, now you’ll find out just what ME means, because there is a now a truth to the ME. ME has to get it done or ME won’t be around for long. See the same can be used about the friends. When it becomes a WE and they say na, it’s all about ME and leave you to bask in the agony of defeit you’ll find our just what ME is truly all about.
In the movie Wall Street where Michael Douglas playing the role as Gordon Gecko says, “Greed is good.” He may be correct, and honestly, I do not see anything wrong with greed if it is handled in the right light. However, to say greed for ME does not include WE? Imagine in a greed for ME world, every ME wants what you have because you owe them.
Give some thought about the ME syndrome, and remember if you’re thinking it’s all about ME, what are your friends thinking about, are they your friends or are they simply leading you to get what they want. When it comes to ME, there are no friends, there will be no one to count on, no one to turn to, and the world will turn away because all will have the same attitude, “The WE society is dead, and it’s all about ME!” Think about it!
Lastly, being part of the ME syndrome and not willing to start at the bottom, wanting to start at the top; you’ll never be able to run, if the ME’s do not know how to crawl or walk! Without paying your dues, you are definitely setting ME up for failure! Life goes on but will you?
Someone has already asked about “The You Owe Me Syndrome,” which I guess can be a part of the ME syndrome.
My curiosity of why I ask this is…
Why do the Millennia feel that someone owes the “ME”? No one owes anyone anything. We are all responsible for our own destiny. The ole adage is work hard, succeed and build a life based on your choosing not based on what someone will give you. When I was growing up you could always count on people. Today’s society steered mainly by the ME attitude is that I cannot count on you unless you get something out of it. I say this with much experience. Having three children, 2 born in the mid, late 80’s, and 1 born at the beginning of the 90’s. The typical Gen Y. They were not brought up that way. They were always taught to respect everyone, lend a hand, and never put your self above the unfortunate. However, their mannerism and attitude has changed from watching their own friends take advantage of those around them. Their response is “Why shouldn’t it be about ME”? As an example, a friend who never sought pity or a handout became unemployed. As he stated, “where were my kids?” When my parents were in need, the children were there to count on so they did not lose everything they worked for all their life. At least the attempt was made to assist. Today’s ME attitude, is you are on your own. I am not saying that it is about the friend being of the ME mentality at all. He’s taken responsibility for his demise and probably would not let his kids help out because he knows they’re not in a position to help, however there is no attempt. None of them ever calls their dad and ask how are you, anything WE can do for you, do you have a place to sleep, and do you have a meal to eat. Nope, it is all about ME. ME has to go party on Friday and Saturday nights. However, ME has no problems when the father was working to come to him asking for a handout. When I got divorced and paying heavily in child support, what was the ME asking, “He doesn’t send ME any money”. They received what could be afforded. Why would you ask a ME question like that? Because they think, they’re owed something. (Note these are just examples, their own friends asked for the same handouts when their parents split up, so it is not stated for sympathy toward anyone, making one think your kids have bad values, it is all around us) Society has changed, and I realize change is good, but not at the detriment of losing value, compassion, and responsibility.
Our country was built on the complexity of WE not the simpleton of ME. It’s in the Declaration of Independence; “WE”hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. In the The Gettysburg Address; “WE" can not dedicate -- "We" can not consecrate -- "WE" can not hallow. The Constitution;"We" the people would write the law --. Do you actually think everyone will always bend to your every whim? You cannot succeed by yourself. As they say, it takes a village to raise a child.
Maybe the Millennia’s do not understand that statement. Are they thinking they were put here to operate by themselves? Can you imagine a global retreat toward only one and everyone being that one? Not everyone can be leaders. You do have to have followers and I’m not suggesting anyone stop striving for the best or stop wanting to become a leader, but what are you going to do when everyone you attempt to lead chooses not to follow because they think along the same lines as “You didn’t hear me say WE, I said ME”? What will you do? What will you do when things do not go your way? In the job force, when you clash or don’t like the job being given, are you merely going to say, “this is not a WE society, this is about the ME society”?
Team effort is about WE not about ME doing it your way. You won’t survive under that analogy. When the top boss says do it his way, it is his company and the team says, I don’t think so, this is not a WE group this about you, you know the one that stresses ME so much and now the team says WE are going home, now you’ll find out just what ME means, because there is a now a truth to the ME. ME has to get it done or ME won’t be around for long. See the same can be used about the friends. When it becomes a WE and they say na, it’s all about ME and leave you to bask in the agony of defeit you’ll find our just what ME is truly all about.
In the movie Wall Street where Michael Douglas playing the role as Gordon Gecko says, “Greed is good.” He may be correct, and honestly, I do not see anything wrong with greed if it is handled in the right light. However, to say greed for ME does not include WE? Imagine in a greed for ME world, every ME wants what you have because you owe them.
Give some thought about the ME syndrome, and remember if you’re thinking it’s all about ME, what are your friends thinking about, are they your friends or are they simply leading you to get what they want. When it comes to ME, there are no friends, there will be no one to count on, no one to turn to, and the world will turn away because all will have the same attitude, “The WE society is dead, and it’s all about ME!” Think about it!
Lastly, being part of the ME syndrome and not willing to start at the bottom, wanting to start at the top; you’ll never be able to run, if the ME’s do not know how to crawl or walk! Without paying your dues, you are definitely setting ME up for failure! Life goes on but will you?
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Catching the Problems Before the Infection Takes Hold
I think both Tom and David are correct. I also feel this will be the next big blow in the main stream as we move out of this economic downfall whereas many companies are hiring not based on experience levels but rather recreating the wheel so to speak as they hire for the low end dollar effect thinking they want everything but not willing to pay the piper. So they hire someone in that may have book knowledge but actual physical experience is costly so they choose the lesser of two evils only in belief that they will make it through the “Perfect Storm.”
In a collaborative agreement I feel Tom makes good points on catching the problems before the infection takes hold., whereas David indicates whether before, during or after it can still be corrected. First off I feel you have know there’s a hole in the ship in order to patch it or you’ll slowly sink despite what your plans maybe. Knowing ahead of time to bring supplies on board for the “what if” scenario will definitely give you the band-aid effect should something happen, you’ll be prepared.
The significance of having the right tools in place will definitely by you time, but once you’re there you definitely have to have a buy-in by all parties, from the ground floor upwards, or you’re spinning your wheels. Financial planning through five key elements, process, organization, knowledge management, technology, and performance management can give leaders the necessary tools to react promptly and come out even stronger.
In a collaborative agreement I feel Tom makes good points on catching the problems before the infection takes hold., whereas David indicates whether before, during or after it can still be corrected. First off I feel you have know there’s a hole in the ship in order to patch it or you’ll slowly sink despite what your plans maybe. Knowing ahead of time to bring supplies on board for the “what if” scenario will definitely give you the band-aid effect should something happen, you’ll be prepared.
The significance of having the right tools in place will definitely by you time, but once you’re there you definitely have to have a buy-in by all parties, from the ground floor upwards, or you’re spinning your wheels. Financial planning through five key elements, process, organization, knowledge management, technology, and performance management can give leaders the necessary tools to react promptly and come out even stronger.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Has the past taught us anything
In a statement that was brought up in a discussion “people wouldn't be able to find a job without recruiters”. In today's world there may and I say may be some truth in some aspects of that statement, but that would probably be based on the job and the company.
Now don't get me wrong we all have jobs to do and some have more responsibilities than others, but in a world of companies wanting positions that are experienced in best practices, change management, and sustainable metrics how on earth is utilizing a 3rd party for these areas and many more not stated really beneficial.
Best practices as I see it is to quit giving HR departments projects to run in feasibility studies, how do we data archive, what color should the drapes be in John's office, etc. Put the burden back on the department that initially has always been the key to obtaining resumes, researching, and calling references instead of it being delegated to them for them to send out to a 3rd party that cost money when that money could be used to fulfill a needed position. That's best practices. I love technology, I follow technology within my given spectrum, but if all it does is confuse the issue and boggles the brain and is not very beneficial to the bottom line of the organization how can it be considered "best practices"?
Secondly, change management. Can you say the practice of farming out such an activity is really advantageous to change management? The old adage of KISS... Keep it simple stupid does have it's upside. Is this really a simplistic matter to go through ever so much of aggravation and discontent between recruiters and job-seekers? One can only assume when the anger occurs from a company toward recruiters and vice-verse how temperamental it becomes. It use to be cheaper to pay temp hires to come in and do HR's filing and leg work while HR initially reviewed resumes and passed them on to hiring managers. But companies have reduced that role from $9.00 and hour to a 25% or more cost value to use outside sources whereas if HR was properly doing their job or properly staffed with the significant experience to review and interview for the positions one could only imagine how much could be saved. The HR groups could be vital parts and a major contributor to the process instead of losing these funds to outside sources and gain back the respect that everyone so dislikes about HR’s nowadays. Outside sourcing is it really change management and really how cost effective is it? Train your people on the inside and let them do the remarkable work they were hired to do.
Thirdly and finally, sustainable metrics? In this context, the resolution for identifying improvements or rather, improving the quality of life. Is this really an improvement over what has taken place for centuries? Let's face it getting down to the bare metal of things; the wheel has already been invented. Why does the business world need another body to fulfill what initially was given to a department to perform. Was it that difficult? If the people you've hired in the HR departments can't understand the positions being asked to fill and we continue to hear the stories of 3rd party gatekeepers who have no knowledge of the terminology the company seeks how can this be an improvement in the quality of business.
I personally believe we’ve gotten relaxed in the business world. We use company funds to play golf, eat hardy lunches and sleep behind our desk and create wonderful attractive graphs that someone will use to tell us what departments aren’t doing their jobs causing outsourcing remedies. But yet we continue to pile on the projects that no one else wants to do on these what could be viable departments and just give the money away to those that are more than happy they’ve been given the opportunity to become part of the mix.
This is by no means an insult or meant as disrespect to recruiters, HR or HH’s. I realize the world has got more complicated with technology, but to say the least does the simplest task have to have chemistry labs next to them to get answers? It really makes no sense from a business standpoint. Maybe that’s why we’re paying Top Executives in major companies billions of dollars in bonuses for not doing their jobs, because we’ve gotten to complex!
Pondering thoughts!
Now don't get me wrong we all have jobs to do and some have more responsibilities than others, but in a world of companies wanting positions that are experienced in best practices, change management, and sustainable metrics how on earth is utilizing a 3rd party for these areas and many more not stated really beneficial.
Best practices as I see it is to quit giving HR departments projects to run in feasibility studies, how do we data archive, what color should the drapes be in John's office, etc. Put the burden back on the department that initially has always been the key to obtaining resumes, researching, and calling references instead of it being delegated to them for them to send out to a 3rd party that cost money when that money could be used to fulfill a needed position. That's best practices. I love technology, I follow technology within my given spectrum, but if all it does is confuse the issue and boggles the brain and is not very beneficial to the bottom line of the organization how can it be considered "best practices"?
Secondly, change management. Can you say the practice of farming out such an activity is really advantageous to change management? The old adage of KISS... Keep it simple stupid does have it's upside. Is this really a simplistic matter to go through ever so much of aggravation and discontent between recruiters and job-seekers? One can only assume when the anger occurs from a company toward recruiters and vice-verse how temperamental it becomes. It use to be cheaper to pay temp hires to come in and do HR's filing and leg work while HR initially reviewed resumes and passed them on to hiring managers. But companies have reduced that role from $9.00 and hour to a 25% or more cost value to use outside sources whereas if HR was properly doing their job or properly staffed with the significant experience to review and interview for the positions one could only imagine how much could be saved. The HR groups could be vital parts and a major contributor to the process instead of losing these funds to outside sources and gain back the respect that everyone so dislikes about HR’s nowadays. Outside sourcing is it really change management and really how cost effective is it? Train your people on the inside and let them do the remarkable work they were hired to do.
Thirdly and finally, sustainable metrics? In this context, the resolution for identifying improvements or rather, improving the quality of life. Is this really an improvement over what has taken place for centuries? Let's face it getting down to the bare metal of things; the wheel has already been invented. Why does the business world need another body to fulfill what initially was given to a department to perform. Was it that difficult? If the people you've hired in the HR departments can't understand the positions being asked to fill and we continue to hear the stories of 3rd party gatekeepers who have no knowledge of the terminology the company seeks how can this be an improvement in the quality of business.
I personally believe we’ve gotten relaxed in the business world. We use company funds to play golf, eat hardy lunches and sleep behind our desk and create wonderful attractive graphs that someone will use to tell us what departments aren’t doing their jobs causing outsourcing remedies. But yet we continue to pile on the projects that no one else wants to do on these what could be viable departments and just give the money away to those that are more than happy they’ve been given the opportunity to become part of the mix.
This is by no means an insult or meant as disrespect to recruiters, HR or HH’s. I realize the world has got more complicated with technology, but to say the least does the simplest task have to have chemistry labs next to them to get answers? It really makes no sense from a business standpoint. Maybe that’s why we’re paying Top Executives in major companies billions of dollars in bonuses for not doing their jobs, because we’ve gotten to complex!
Pondering thoughts!
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