Gamifying me 0.1

I am the Podgemeister General.  A week ago I stood on the scales and I was 14st 13lb.  That weight would be acceptable if I was an international rugby player, however, it seems that currently the Welsh rugby squad is strong enough to cope without me. 13st 10lb is about fine for me as a …

New: Collective decisions – the Book of Blogs

Things you need to know - new things are here... read on....don't think you've seen it all before. There are some decisions to be made and you need to be aware of them - even if you don't want to have a say. If you haven't seen any of the blogs regarding this before I'd suggest you …

HR Social – Unicorns, rainbows and pixies

Emotivism - I feel a bit bored of social media without the fighting Prescriptivism - everyone should fight, because I'm a bit bored of social media Yes, it's a trite summary of someone else's position - but it's provocative, likely to start an argument and possibly upsetting so it's actually ok. -------------- Yesterday I read …

Update: The Book of Blogs 22/07

Quick recap: The Book of Blogs is an upcoming book of HR/OD/L+D/Business blogs that we are attempting to produce as a crowdsourced project, with conception to publication on Amazon in a total of less than 2 months. Currently we are making amazing progress. Thanks to everyone who has agreed to contribute. This week's milestones Milestone …

The Book of Blogs – progress update and FAQ

When I first set upon this crazy enterprise I wasn't sure what I was doing or if it would take off. Whilst I'm still not sure what I'm doing, I'm delighted to say that the idea has very much taken off. The individuals below have all agreed to contribute and if they all do then …

Simple things – language and HR

It isn't that hard. I'm not saying it's easy, but the things we do actually aren't rocket science. Unless you are currently a very involved Business Partner for NASA ( in which case, apologies - but it's hardly brain surgery). It does seem that s all too often we require the comfort blanket of credibility …

The Book of Blogs – if we build it…

I'm using this blog entry to add a bit more meat to the bones of a recent idea. After the success of people contributing to a crowdsourced list of great bloggers (just scroll down a bit), I thought the next natural extension was to create a crowdsourced book made up of 'blogs'. The broad idea …

My alternative list of Social Influencers and Interesters

My alternative Huff Social HR List View more lists from David D'Souza Following yesterday's post by the Huffington on the most influential, socially influential, HR sharing people (it wasn't very clear) I've started what I hope will be a crowdsourced list. This has the benefit of people being able to add to the list rather …