The next installment of “Principles of Talentism” will be out Monday (I had the post ready but decided to rewrite it at 3 in the morning). In the meantime, some quick hits from the week:
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Our global launch of our “Universal Sourcing Platform” (USP) happens next week. Sean Rehder and Kristi Cavanaugh on our team have done an amazing job of getting a worldwide launch of a new system ready in just 2 months. (Some day, when I start writing on TuSK again, I will tell you about Kristi and Sean – they are both incredible).
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Speaking of our USP… part of what we developed was a University Recruiting module to sit on top of Salesforce. Developed by Colleen McCreary (our University Relations director) and Sean (I am going to have to write about Colleen on TuSK too – she is awesome). The thing I am really excited about is that this will be our first instance of putting up something we are working on in the Salesforce AppExchange. This takes us one small step closer to the vision of a community development platform for new apps in our space. Salesforce is reviewing now, so I’ll keep you posted about whether they agree to finalize distribution. And huge kudos to Sean, who, as I like to say, is “The shortest distance between an idea and software.”
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One of amazing things about blogging and the Internet is the speed at which you become a global presence. Last year someone translated one of my posts into Spanish, and this year Frank Mulligan (who runs a great blog that everyone should check out) translated something I wrote into Chinese (click in the upper right hand corner for the English version). Thanks to Frank for the honor. Talentism in three languages… what is the world coming to?
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I really like John Sumser’s writing these days. I have always been a fan of John’s, but there is something about his posts recently that makes me believe that John is enjoying his work again. I heard that he was a hit at the Kennedy Conference, which I was happy to hear as John hasn’t gotten out as much as he should. I was sorry I couldn’t be there, but look forward to the next one.
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Back in September I wrote that “The easy-to-understand benefit of RPO is the "one throat to choke" theory of staff function management.” I got emails and calls asking whether I had some sort of sadistic view of corporate life such that I would use language like that. Today I feel somewhat vindicated with the prestigious McKinsey Quarterly stating the following: “A rising demand for integrated IT and telecom services: CIOs increasingly want just "one throat to choke" when it comes to IT and telecom services. So far, the providers haven't stuck out their necks.” Always nice to be validated by the boys and girls in cashmere.
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One of the hardest things about blogging (in my experience at least) is making the trade-off between keeping a discussions going and starting a new one. Recently I have started a couple of conversations that provoked really fantastic comments from people whom I respect a great deal. Rather than fleshing those conversations out, I have just jumped to the next conversation. But that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been reading and enjoying the comments. Thanks to Colin, Martin and many others (and to Heather, for telling me to get over myself, and to CH, for telling me I was an idiot – I do very much appreciate it). I will point out one comment that came in this morning, as it is connected with a post I wrote some time ago (RPO War) and will therefore probably go unnoticed. I generally don’t publish comments or trackbacks that are product placement editorials, but Jon’s article is worth the read, so I decided to leave in the last sentence where he shills for his company. Definitely not an endorsement on my part – I don’t know Jon nor do I know anything about his company. But if you add value to the site you should get some value in return - and in the spirit of doing so...
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Martin’s contributions are fantastic, so check this out.
Colin writes great stuff, so make sure you check this out.
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While I have not used either of these gentlemen's products, their depth of intelligence and their ongoing commitment to makinig us all better through their contribution means their stuff is worth a look.
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We’ll start back on Monday on the Talentism Principles. Have a great weekend everybody.
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