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I’m a reflector, completer finisher, ENTJ, inspirer – what are you?

What is it with psychologists that they want to pigeonhole everybody – all 6 billion of us? Here is just a very small sample of the sort of ‘bump feeling’ that I have personally been subjected to over the years: … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 7 Oct 2010 12:30 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: Belbin, EB Product Testing Lab, evaluation, Insights, learning styles, Myers Briggs, personality, Peter Honey, questionnaires, team roles
Evidence, Wikileaks, Machiavelli and the New Enlightenment

The one thing that stands out for me from the WikiLeaks debacle is how the ‘old order’ is resisting the new. One interest group that have had to come out into the daylight are the diplomats who are berating Wikileaks … Continue reading → Read...

Published 9 Dec 2010 9:23 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: MBA Questions, diplomats, Enlightenment, Machiavelli, Nobel Prize, Wikileaks
68% of projects fail

This flyer (pictured) from Cranfield University School of Management landed in my mail a couple of days ago and it immediately caught my eye because I wondered if Cranfield was referring to the projects run by its alumni? Cranfield has … Continue...

Published 21 Oct 2010 2:29 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, NHS, EBHR Solutions, EB Product Testing Lab, Cranfield, MBA, Ministry of Defence, MOD, project management, Standish Chaos Report
Q13 to Q25?

Evidence can easily be twisted and manipulated – lawyers are often tempted to lead a witness in court. You know the sort of thing; the prosecutor asks ‘would you say the defendant had been drinking?’ Judges are expected to be Read the Rest »...

Published 28 Jul 2011 5:08 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: Evidence, Truth Seekers & Idealists, damn lies and statistics, Gallup, leading questions, Q12
If surgeons use checklists EB Managers have no excuse

How wrong can an assumption be? My piece last week assumed that those doyens of evidence-based practice – surgeons – always get the basics right, only to read 5 days later (in a fascinating article) that even they have to Read the Rest » Read...

Published 27 Apr 2011 11:46 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Solutions, All EBM Lessons - Doing it for real, Atul Gawande, EBM checklist, Surgery safety checklist, WHO
Valuism – an evidence-based alternative

Now is probably as a good a time as any to introduce a new ‘ism’ to the world – as we start a brand new decade knowing we have yet to find a long-term solution to the catastrophe of the … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 5 Jan 2011 10:41 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, Microsoft, social responsibility, Bill Gates, BP oil spill, Capitalism and Freedom, environmentalism, global banking system, global financial system, Milton Friedman, Nobel prize economics, profit motive, Socialism, Steve Ballmer, Truth Seekers & Idealists, value motive
EB-HR, Human Capital Reporting and International HR Standards are all closely connected

There are three, seminal, management ideas that have been moving inexorably towards each other over the last 50 years and they are finally beginning to meet up at the same junction: - Evidence-based management is emerging as a superior approach Read the...

Published 9 Aug 2011 12:25 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: General HR Council, EB Leadership, EBHR Solutions, SHRM, Einstein, ISO
Evaluation of learning – 3 simple rules of the game

When is a profession not a profession? When it fails to follow its own professional advice. Imagine a surgeon saying – ‘Yes, I know the operating theatre should be a sterile environment but hey, what are a few bacteria among Read the Rest » Read...

Published 20 Apr 2011 3:50 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Learning & Development, EBHR Solutions, training evaluation
Does anyone know where can I find an infinite supply of monkeys?

You are probably well aware of the theory that given an infinite supply of monkeys, with an infinite supply of computers, one would eventually produce, purely through random keystrokes, the entire works of Shakespeare. Bob Newhart famously skewered this...

Published 27 Jan 2011 3:23 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EB Learning & Development, EBHR Solutions, BBC, Ashridge, infinite monkeys, leadership development, Shakespeare
The HR ‘Wheel’ adds no value

An odd title, you might think, for someone who has been espousing the cause of competitive advantage through strategic, evidence-based HR for well over 20 years? Not really. This series is promoting VALUE, not HR. HR is, at best, a … Continue reading...

Published 22 Feb 2011 12:06 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, Truth Seekers & Idealists, Dell, engagement survey, forced ranking, Ford, outsourcing HR, reinventing wheel, shared service
Managers with ‘ODD’ attitudes do not get EBM

One of the many aspects of human behaviour that I have never been able to fathom is the ‘polar shift’ – moving from one extreme position to another without any rational explanation. Anyone who has children will have witnessed it. Read the Rest »...

Published 14 Apr 2011 9:43 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: PwC, Saratoga, EBHR Solutions, EB Product Testing Lab, Accenture, control groups, double blind, oppositional defiance disorder, proving a negative, randomised trials
PwC – The March of the Clones

Anyone who has ever seen the films Village of the Damned (based on the book The Midwich Cuckoos) or Stepford Wives, or any other work in the genre of people being turned into crazed automatons, and has also had the … Continue reading → Read...

Published 12 Jan 2011 10:07 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: General HR Council, EB Leadership, Evidence, PwC, Saratoga, Neil Roden, Truth Seekers & Idealists, damn lies and statistics, CIPD, Fred Goodwin, RBS
NHS – A terminal case of management cancer? Part 1.

Evidence-based managers always spell out their assumptions and those assumptions need to address any problems that are likely to occur. When I was taught the Hay method of job evaluation years ago the tutor did not follow this principle and … Continue...

Published 27 Oct 2010 4:37 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EB Leadership, EB Learning & Development, NHS, Daniel Goleman, EB Product Testing Lab, competence, core competence, David Nicholson, Greg Dyke, Hamel, Hay, Institute Innovation Improvement, Leadership Council, McBer, ONS, Prahalad
Equal opportunities can have unintended consequences

There is an under-pinning notion in evidence-based management that one should always looks at the specific context before trying to apply a generic (HR) policy. If you wanted a convincing example to back up this assertion then look no further …...

Published 1 Sep 2010 4:16 PM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: equal opportunities, MBA Questions, NHS
The un-balanced scorecard needs that human touch

Anyone who entered the world of management within the last 20 years will have come across something called the ‘balanced scorecard’ and might even have felt its cold, damp hand on their shoulder. Those of us who have been in … Continue reading →...

Published 8 Mar 2011 11:14 AM by Evidence-Based HR

Filed under: EBHR Critiques, MBA Questions, Ulrich, Harvard Business Review, EB Product Testing Lab, balanced scorecard, Becker, dashboard, Harvard Business Press, Huselid, Kaplan, Norton, performance measurement, performancemanagement

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I’m a reflector, completer finisher, ENTJ, inspirer – what are you?

Evidence, Wikileaks, Machiavelli and the New Enlightenment

68% of projects fail

Q13 to Q25?

If surgeons use checklists EB Managers have no excuse

Valuism – an evidence-based alternative

EB-HR, Human Capital Reporting and International HR Standards are all closely connected

Evaluation of learning – 3 simple rules of the game

Does anyone know where can I find an infinite supply of monkeys?

The HR ‘Wheel’ adds no value

Managers with ‘ODD’ attitudes do not get EBM

PwC – The March of the Clones

NHS – A terminal case of management cancer? Part 1.

Equal opportunities can have unintended consequences

The un-balanced scorecard needs that human touch