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Posted: 23 May 2011 09:42 AM PDT
This post was originally posted on May 6th, 2011 by one of my first HR twitter friends, Trish McFarlane. Trish is writing about another one of my first HR twitter friends, Steve Boese who I remember in early Twitter days as @sbjet. Take a look and realize that social media is about supporting one another.
*********** I need your help today. I start this post by saying that Steve Boese has no idea I'm writing this. If he did, he may try to dissuade me. That said, I have far too much respect for him not to share this. You see, my friend Steve is going through what many of us have experienced at some point in the last few years….a layoff. And while not completely unexpected, he certainly didn't think his company was going to lay off a group of leaders last Thursday. To tell you the most important thing about Steve is to share that he has strong character and is the kind of guy that gets the job done. He received this devastating news just one day before HRevolution. He could have decided not to come. But he didn't. He held his head high and came to the event that he co-creates and spent time around the very group of people from our industry who "get" what he does. To quote the leaders in the HR Technology space: "Steve, at the HR Technology Conference, we always cared about your "day job" because you are expert in running HR systems, especially from Oracle. Plus teaching others about it. Combine that with your social experience and media knowledge, and you're one special guy. We look forward to your being a panelist at this year's event in Vegas, in addition to hosting an HRevolution session with Trish on our own program, after doing the full-tilt boogie HRevolution in our hotel on the Sunday afternoon before our opening reception. In short, you are a Renaissance Man in my world." Bill Kutik "I'm confident that your next best opportunity will find you." Naomi Bloom Here's what you need to know about Steve:
Each person who reads this blog has business contacts. I ask you to think today of at least one person you can put Steve in contact with, one person you can pass his information to, one suggestion you can make to help Steve in his search. One of the most important reasons to build our network is that when we're in need, our community can circle the wagons. Let's do our part to help Steve today. His contact information is below. Email – steveboese@gmail.comPhone (585) 317-7492 Twitter - @SteveBoese ************ I decided to post this today since I’m flying to Vegas for HR Demo. My hope is that someone from the conference or who is interested in the event will read this post and give Steve a call. He’s a great guy and one of the leading innovators in the HR Social Media spaces. He’s also my friend and someone I very much respect.  |
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Posted: 23 May 2011 03:13 AM PDT
 I spent the last two weeks in Florida with my daughter while my husband, Greg finished up a project. It is extremely challenging to continue “business as usual” when you’re ten minutes from the beach. I spent my mornings working with many of my afternoons with my daughter spending some much needed get-a-way time together.The thing about getting away is that it clears your mind to think, to feel, and to decompress. I did something I hadn’t done in a couple of years, I wrote with a paper and pen. The glare of my iPad at the beach kept me from getting things done. So it felt good to get back to basics as I jotted ideas and thoughts onto an old school notebook. And I wondered how many brilliant ideas were lost due to technology. Technology getting in the way. Technology streamlining the process. Technology helping us to do our job better, faster, and more efficient. Remember the days when candidates applied directly for a job by looking the hiring manager in the eye or when you actually clocked in? When’s the last time you had a good laugh with your co-workers or even your boss near or within 200 feet of the time clock? Have you ever said at a business meeting, “Hold on, that’s a great idea I’ve got to put this into my iPhone?” No, me neither. And before technology, we did the best that we could when inspiration or an idea would strike. We’d literally grab onto whatever was handy. These days it’s smart phone tools like Evernote and Dragon Dictation. But before that, ideas, inspiration, and invention was played out on the back of receipts, napkins, and even toilet paper. Is ideas, creativity, and writing are essential to your leadership and life processes? I bet these fine folks think (and thought) so:
Technology is effectively killing your and my daily and creative genius. One year or two ago, I gave up my handy dandy notebook. I thought I upgraded. And last week sitting on the beach I realized that I was wrong. Each day we, as humans have thousands and maybe millions of ideas. Millions of daily genius slipping through our fingers relying on our memory or technology to map our lives. And so last night as I began packing to travel to Vegas for the HR Demo Show, I included my Mac Book Pro, my iPad, and my handy dandy notebook. While I won’t leave my technology at home, there’s something to be said about putting pen to paper or even pen to napkin like Marty. How are you feeding your creative genius or better yet the creative genius of your workforce as a leader? Photo Credit Napkin Dad.  |
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