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Re: No, We’re Not Doing Drugs

frankroche — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:57:52 -0000

@Blll We really got called out on that one. It's really good...and he is just a little too clever. ;)

It's too freaking funny that he's a step ahead of us...or so he thinks.

Re: No, We’re Not Doing Drugs

Strahan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:45:40 -0000

Love the note. This is a biproduct of great parenting.

Can't help but notice the irony however, that the teenage "I am so smart, I know what your lame-ass parent questions are before you ask them" list of answers is written on letterhead for a FERTILIZER company.

Don't tell me you and Sheryl missed that!

Re: I’m Going to Start Tying the Merovingian Knot on My Ties

Strahan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:34:41 -0000

I tried it. Luckily the paramedics were able to revive me with oxygen.

Re: I Rearranged My Sock Drawer

Strahan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:18:05 -0000

Good memories of living la vita____.

Re: 10 New Job Titles for Pay Transparency

frankroche — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:45:14 -0000

That is a beauty.

Re: 10 New Job Titles for Pay Transparency

Strahan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:35:30 -0000

SVP CB WLCC

Re: Communication is the New Compensation

frankroche — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:41:05 -0000

Thank you...I cringed a little when I was writing it because it could look a little self serving. But I think it's the real deal.

Re: Communication is the New Compensation

Strahan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:31:56 -0000

Damn this one is good.

Re: HR on a Shoestring

frankroche — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:22:28 -0000

I lost track a little while I was writing. I guess what I'm saying is "Keep
what you love. Dump the rest." I've seen L&D done right...that is cool. And
I've seen it be a giant sinkhole of academic despair and soft hugs that have
little to do with business success. It's why I'm asking...I don't know
what's going on with me...usually I'm so opinionated and directive. It must
be my old age...I'm asking...and always reserve the right to be wrong.

Re: HR on a Shoestring

Strahan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:55:51 -0000

Trick question right? Right? Right?

Outsourcing doesn't make you more shoestringier. It only trades real love and devotion to doing the work for a mercantile relationship to someone you hope has love and devotion.

Re: How to Create Communication Strategy For Underwater Stock Options

frankroche — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:27:45 -0000

Really great point about hygiene factors...some things only make us satisfied, but their removal makes us actively aggravated. Right now, not acknowledging underwater options is a mistake IMHO. Employees need to hear about how the company's doing and what the prospects are for pulling out of the doldrums. Deeply underwater options are just an aggravation otherwise.

Re: How to Create Communication Strategy For Underwater Stock Options

Strahan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:08:18 -0000

Topical

Another point; at what point is the existence of the underwater option no longer, not a positive incentive, but is an active negative?

Underwater stock options kill.

Re: Top 10 Events of 2008 That Will Shape HR in 2009

frankroche — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:09:52 -0000

Sarah did a knockout job on this one. Those who ignore history --even recent history -- are bound to repeat it. Good context for the HR world. It's making us think. Thanks very much for this comment...it's what keeps the writing and thinking going.

Re: Top 10 Events of 2008 That Will Shape HR in 2009

Strahan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:48:30 -0000

Thanks Sarah. This is a really important post. I think that this is a bit of best.

Good - HR people really good at HR stuff (execellent execution)
Better - HR people really good at business generally and HR specifically (business people who happen to be in HR)
Best - HR people who are mature, cleaver business people who put their business issues in the context of social, economic, cultural and historical trends around them (HR people who are worthy citizens)

You nailed this one. Thanks.

Re: Getting There Early

frankroche — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:38:21 -0000

You are the master at squeezing the essence out of a thought. Nice.

Re: Getting There Early

Strahan — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:29:37 -0000

Reliable in small things, reliable in big things.

Re: I’m Still Full of Piss and Vinegar

frankroche — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:02:57 -0000

I take that under serious advisement. I'm not proud of that reaction I had...I wish I had the constitution to let things go. I'm working on it. Just ever once in a while I like the blood pressure rise, though. You're right, taken to it's logical conclusion, machismo is no way to go.

Re: I’m Still Full of Piss and Vinegar

Strahan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:39:50 -0000

Nope - I am not buying.

Here is my test. Would you rather be the guy who sits there and says - "what an asshole that third guy in line is", or be that asshole. The victory is in knowing that you are right and better.

I think your thinking is how 10,000 limbs have been lost in Iraq.

Re: Words of Wisdom in Troubled Times: Campbell Soup CEO Doug Conant

frankroche — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:41:53 -0000

M'mmm-h'mmm.

Re: Words of Wisdom in Troubled Times: Campbell Soup CEO Doug Conant

Strahan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:07:50 -0000

M'mm smart.

Re: All General Statements Are False

Strahan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:53:21 -0000

I will have to get back to you on that Frank.

Re: Rethinking HR

frankroche — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:11:09 -0000

Thank you, sir. Passion is making the writing a little more to the point.

Re: Rethinking HR

Strahan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:07:58 -0000

Like a field when you lift a cow pie from it. It leaves a depression.

Well written Frank.

Re: Writer’s Remorse

Strahan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:59:25 -0000

Solid.

Re: 10 Things HR Needs to Do in an Economic Downturn: Redux

frankroche — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:14:47 -0000

Bill, your piece today really knocked me out and gave me inspiration to post this one again. Sometimes good ideas have legs.