Resumes and Bad Judgment: More bias than you think

April 20, 2010

Tweet Every resume should come with a warning label: Don’t trust your judgment of this person. It’s probably biased. Study after study shows us that the assessments we make of people based on their resumes are biased. These biases are predictable, and they skew our judgments of job candidates. Judging personality from resumes? You’re probably […]

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My baby, she wrote me a letter … about iPads?

April 14, 2010

Tweet I’m not sure whether to be dismayed or delighted… am I allowed to be both, at the same time? I’m delighted about my kids’ initiative, and dismayed at the power of Apple’s advertising. Listen to my story… Saturday morning, racing towards a deadline, I was working in my office when my daughter came in […]

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Capturing Authenticity in Your Business Name: Dangerous Mathematicians

April 6, 2010

Tweet Over the weekend I took my family over to Brooklyn to visit our groovy friend Lizz. Part of the plan was to wander around Boerum Hill and explore (okay, window shop and eat ice cream). As per usual, I found it necessary to stick my nose in someone else’s business. Wouldn’t you *have* to […]

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Supermodels on Twitter: Five Ways to Rock the Twitter Runway

April 1, 2010

Tweet I’m not sure whether Naomi, Linda, Tatiana, Christy, or Cindy are really on Twitter, but if they are, their strategy probably involves one of five “supermodels” of Twitter participation. [Yes, that’s what we call a bait ‘n switch, but since you’re more interested in Twitter than in Supermodels, you don’t really mind, right?] If […]

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Corporate Logo Tattoos: The wrong way to wear the brand

March 31, 2010

Tweet In the domain of “things I just don’t understand about people’s relationship(s) to organizations” is this nagging question: Why would anyone want to brand themselves with a corporate logo? Way back when I began studying organizational identification and employee branding (branding in the metaphorical sense), I heard about an April Fool’s Joke on NPR […]

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Heaping Scorn & Criticism on Feminist Advocates at Newsweek

March 24, 2010

Tweet This week’s story about feminists at Newsweek who have publicly challenged that magazine for failing to make progress against gender discrimination encouraged me, as I’m sure it encouraged many others. To see someone, anyone, make a prominent critique of a prominent organization, and then to have that organization make this criticism public, should have […]

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Will Newsweek Respond to Claims of Sexism?

March 23, 2010

Tweet I would love to have been in the room when three journalists at Newsweek proposed that Newsweek publish their article criticizing Newsweek for gender discrimination. Why? You know you’re getting close(r) to authenticity when you can have a recursive sentence like that one written about changing things that are wrong at your organization. Here […]

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Active Lurkers: How Idea Lovecats Demonstrate Engagement

March 18, 2010

Tweet Many of us bloggers look at the disparity between the number of visitors to our blogs and the number of comments on our blogs, and weep shake our heads. Why is the ratio of unique visitors to commenters 683 to 1? Or 389 to 5? Or 200 to 0? What are those other 682, […]

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Authentic Church Signs: Authenticity and ‘the new church movement’

March 17, 2010

Tweet Would it surprise you to learn that the online place where people talk about organizational authenticity the most is in ‘the new church movement’? ‘The new church movement’ (what I call it, but it may have other labels) is that center of online energy around being a better Christian. By better, I mean more […]

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Social Media, False Urgency & Anywhen: Chris Brogan shows how to improve your Work-Life Fit

March 15, 2010

Tweet Blogger & Trust Agent extraordinaire, Chris Brogan, recently shared a mini rant that contained an important demonstration of work-life initiative. His suggestion — that we learn to recognize and respect what really is or isn’t ‘urgent’ — is a key element of constructing a healthy relationship between work and the rest of your life. […]

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