Updates and Changes – New Date for Blogtalkradio Episode and New HR Examiner Article

Believe it or not I have a personal life and sometimes it actually takes precedence over my work here on the interwebs and with clients.  Today is one of those days.

I’ll be on the road traveling and won’t be able to be in front of a microphone for the scheduled blogtalkradio show “Influence Insider” with guest Sean Geehan, CEO/President/Founder of Geehan Group and soon to be published author.  The show has been rescheduled for September 15, 2010 at Noon EDT – I hope you can adjust your calendars and tune in.  Sean will be addressing what I think – as does he – the much overlooked ways we influence B2B channels.  I was really looking forward to the conversation but we’ll have to just give it a couple of weeks.

In the meantime…

But don’t fret – there is something for you to do today at noon.  You can jump over to the HR Examiner website and read my recent contribution – “Maintaining Human Machines.”

A taste of the article…

The industrial revolution elevated the machine over the “man.” The process, and the machines that chugged away within it, created the value for the company. People were extensions to the machine – the tail to the dog.

Value = People

But that changed about 20 years ago. Humans are now the nexus of value at almost every company. But most companies still manage their business and their people like Henry Ford did over 100 years ago.

That is the disconnect.

In the past HR was required to manage “human” resources in order to make the machines and the processes more cost effective.

The key today, and in the future, is to understand how to maintain and get the most out of humans in order to drive business results.

So – until I get back in front of the golden I2I microphone (or I find another bad incentive theory/practice to keep you from implementing) think about how you would approach human machines and ask – how you would write a maintenance manual for your people?