I’ve written about Trello, the popular teak task management app designed around Kanban-style “boards” (see “Trello and Atlassian are quietly making inroads and announce new funding” and “The 2013 task management… Read more »
Checkr is a competitor in the new hire background checks space, which is seeing a lot of growth due to the growth of freelance work platforms, like Homejoy, Instacart, and so on… Read more »
I recently wrote about concerns about the role of big data that arose from Facebook’s research effort where the researchers sought to determine if emotional state could be manipulated by what appeared in… Read more »
I am a real believer in building in feedback into business, where management — and potentially all participants, depending on the degree of enlightenment of the senior team — can learn… Read more »
Zappos has taken another unconventional step. Recently the company dropped official job titles as part of CEO Tony Hsieh’s embrace of Holacracy, the manager-less organizational method (see Leanership trumps leadership), also adopted… Read more »
I’ve decided to adopt the ‘people operations’ term from Google, Dropbox, and others in place of ‘human resources’, principally because I don’t think that people are ‘resources’, but also because those… Read more »
Thomas Friedman interviewed Laszlo Bock, based on the Adam Bryant interview of last June which I wrote about at the time (see Google admits HR brainteasers were “a complete waste of time”)… Read more »
TINYhr, the company behind the TINYpulse anonymous staff feedback tool I reviewed a few months ago, has taken the basic premises of that tool — frequent simple web app feedback, and anonymous… Read more »