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“Then a miracle occurs…”
I love this adaptation of a classic Sidney Harris cartoon from the New Yorker. It appears in a 2012 book titled, The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into...
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What happens in KronosWorks shouldn’t stay in KronosWorks…
They don’t call it Sin City for nothing. On an October trip, I ventured out to the strip at oh six hundred for some exercise since the fitness center at the Mirage was packed with conscious East...
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Don’t be a-scared of e-Learning
I’ve always loved Halloween with my kids, and now grand kids, but I’m not down with the new tree down tradition of the past two boo weekends. Last year I counted 127 rings in the Oak that blew over in...
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“KRONITES” INVADING LAS VEGAS!
Thanks to the lifesaving invention called social media, I can report that Las Vegas is beginning to be invaded by “Kronites,” a human-like alien with an unhealthy obsession about making their subjects...
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Some Assembly Required
This “demotivational poster” captures the agony of many a parent (or grandparent) on Christmas Eve. You buy little Brajdyn or Dayleigh Daley the jeep, doll house, or nuclear plant they wanted, and you...
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All is quiet on (the day after) New Year’s Day
My screaming leap off a legacy cliff into (Work)2013 is currently on hold while a plumber roughs in the ½ bath of my man-cave, a new element of (Play)2013. The man-cave, a (seemingly) five year...
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Free Bagels Friday
One of my first impressions working for Kronos back in the Spring of 2000 was free bagels Friday. That was cool. Still is, unless you’re striving for ketosis. I’m not, but I lay off bagels except for...
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Software Crash and Burn
“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.” - Popularly attributed to Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-IL) / (1896 –1969), but there’s no proof he actually said it… Last week it...
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And her nose stuck in a book…
Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” was the first movie I ever saw at the theater with my daughter, Megan. In 1991, my little blond girl was about 2 ½. I’ll never forget the opening scene as the...
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Data. Make it so.
For the past few hours I’ve been at the bottom of a spreadsheet under 45,192 rows of data. I started with a spreadsheet of all customers trained to date by Kronos since 2010. That data wasn’t pristine,...
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Kronos: We’ll Do it Live!
Oh, that epic meltdown years ago by Bill O’Reilly during a taping of “Inside Edition” always makes me smile. Hey, live events create risk because they’re, well, live, and they involve people. Whether a...
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Fredo, I know it was you… at KronosWorks!
Last week I was in a meeting on KronosWorks 2013 planning, and someone asked what the “big customer event” would be. The conference is in Orlando this year, so the theme parks are a draw. A fun “New...
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Build Your Social Network without Technology
Yesterday I attended Get Serious About Social Customer Engagement, a fantastic webinar with Dr. Michael Wu, chief scientist at Lithium. While most webinars I attend are lipstick on a sales pitch, this...
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Top 15 learning tools in the universe*
The Universe. KnowledgePass is in here… A little after oh-six-hundred this morning, my coffee and I finally got around to viewing the viral slideshare presentation, Mary Meeker’s state of the internet....
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Freudian learning…
Last night I chatted with Nina, the daughter of my best friend of 46 years, who passed away August 1st. Nina is sticking her toe back in the educational pool with college classes in Biology and...
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Is it KronosLive or is it..?
Sometimes I wonder if my cultural references are too dated, and if I should be watching “Breaking Bad” so I can reference it… Anyway, I don’t think I can go wrong with a reference to the “First Lady of...
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“What would you do with a brain if you had one?”
“With the thoughts you’d be thinkin’ You could be another Lincoln If you only had a brain” by Harold Arlen (music) and E.Y. Harburg (lyrics) Hey, it’s Friday, and I want to enter the weekend with a...
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Don’t Ctrl-Alt-Del Destiny
Yesterday the news hit that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates acknowledged that designing the Control-Alt-Delete keys together to log into a PC was a mistake in the early development of Microsoft DOS....
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Does your HR Business Partner know Jack about STEM?
To quote HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey: “My mind is going. I can feel it.” Yeah, I occasionally have lapses like HAL, but I still retain vivid recollections of my grad-student, science-guy...
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Crowdsourcing Kronos
I missed both of these yesterday… The TV’s on my JetBlue flight flicked off shortly after the New Orleans Saints stunned the New England Patriots by taking a 27-23 lead with a couple minutes remaining....
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