Archive for October, 2020
Posted by Jim Nelson on October 27, 2020
In the HBR article I mentioned last week, they also mentioned hiring. Unlike over engineering that is emerging in other business activities, chaos in hiring is what they see. They note that hiring is one place where people still shoot from the hip. In talking about if any place has too little engineering, they name […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on October 20, 2020
I read a good article on HBR not long ago. They noted that empowerment has been growing for 70 years in the US, but suddenly bosses are getting excited about engineering for the one right way to do a task. So over-engineering is coming back. Suddenly, we have Empowerment vs Algorithms! They say Big Data […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on October 13, 2020
China reference checks can be valuable but rarely are. When They Are Done is a Sign When do you do reference checks is a good question to ask if some recruiter says they do background checks. If they say at the end of the process, we can confidently tell you that their background check is […]
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