So twice in one week I’m giving a shoutout to Joe. I’ve been having this discussion in a few forums recently and it was good to see it reiterated in his video from a recent presentation. If you have a moment (or three minutes), go check out his video and give his blog a read. [...]
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No Comments Khalil on Feb 24th 2010
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Engaged Employees?
Following the link from one of the brilliant folk I follow on twitter (@JoeGerstandt), I found myself digging into a website on employee engagement. I downloaded a powerpoint from a recent webinar that outlined some of their research. Among some key points they offered are that: 1/5 employees are highly disengaged; 60% of employees are [...]
1 Comment Khalil on Feb 23rd 2010
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Ethnocentrism. Is it ok?
In a recent assignment for a class I facilitate, one of the students posed the question (which I’m paraphrasing) of whether it was ok for people from subordinate or target racial groups to be ethnocentric. The question came after reading an article by Milton Bennett describing the DMIS (note: ours was different, but this is [...]
No Comments Khalil on Jan 31st 2010
So one of the various social networking sites I belong to is Change.org. On a weekly basis, they send out briefings of some of their writers blog posts. This week, there were two brief and interesting pieces on prostitution (from which I appropriated the picture below). The picture was published in 2007 and shows a [...]
No Comments Khalil on Mar 22nd 2009
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Facebook, Twitter, and Blogs at work
It goes without saying that I am interested in how organizations respond to the extracurricular activities of their members. Be it employees or volunteers, there is often a vested interest in controlling, or at least attempting to control, what employees do and say in their lives outside the organization. The Chronicle (yes, it’s mediocre academic [...]
No Comments Khalil on Feb 28th 2009
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Discrimination Hurts…
I don’t always agree with Mr. Pitts, but even in the few times I don’t agree, I dig his writing. Here, however, I think he’s on point. LEONARD PITTS JR. Discrimination hurts — more so in hospitals By LEONARD PITTS JR. lpitts@miamiherald.com Your wife is dying. One moment everything was fine. You were in your [...]
No Comments Khalil on Feb 21st 2009
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Despite the appearence…
I’ve been writing every single day for at least 15 minutes. Much of it, however, doesn’t work or fit here. It is a bit personal, or it is a bit heady and research-centered. For some reason, I lean towards not getting overly-personal in this specific space anymore. Most of the time, I think it is [...]
No Comments Khalil on Feb 4th 2009
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If I didn’t know any better…
I would have forgotten that I was supposed to think this guy was crazy. Not that I ever really agreed, but they (meaning the previous presidential administration and their supporters) really wanted me, and you, to think he was. Or to think he is. I recommend giving it a read if you have the time.
No Comments Khalil on Jan 31st 2009
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Primate Committee Thinking Experiment
Someone in my office printed this out the other day. Thus far, nobody is taking responsibility for it, but I found it both funny and extremely insightful and had to transcribe it. Start with a cage containing five apes. In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Before long, [...]
No Comments Khalil on Jul 14th 2008