Guru

Guru is busy making new blogger friends on the other side of the pond.

Frank Roche and Sarah Chambers from communication consultancy iFractal run the KnowHR blog, an award-winning US-based human resources blog that has just been named Best of the Web by Human Resources Executive magazine.

Guru is awaiting his Best of the Web commendation from Personnel Today, but worries that the editor might want to declare an interest.

The American HR blog community is better developed than our own fledgling UK efforts, as evidenced by KnowHR's impressive blogroll (for all you non-techies out there, that's blogroll, not bog-roll), which links to such luminaries as Bob Sutton of Work Matters and Guy Kawasaki of How to Change the World.

Sutton and Kawasaki have themselves collaborated on an excellent new self-test tool called ARSE (the asshole rating self-exam).

Questions include:

You believe that one of the best ways to 'climb the ladder' is to push other people down or out of the way - true or false.

You are often jealous of your colleagues, and find it difficult to be genuinely pleased for them when they do well - true or false.

Try it - and let Guru know how much of an ARSE you really are.