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Darin Phillips — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:56:58 -0400

The major flaw in the study is an assumption that residential power usage is the only power usage being affected. The researchers should also include company power usage to see if there is any difference. Because the residential difference was a mere 1% I suspect that the commercial building power consumption will wipe out that paltry savings. Personally, I would prefer to leave daylight savings time on all year round because I would rather have light at the end of the day when I am driving home.

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Darin Phillips — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:41:11 -0400

Barbara, your comment was headlined on my iGoogle Fast Company widget so I appreciate you bringing me to this article. However, your comment does not seem related to the content of the article. The title of this article is similarly off-topic, but the article itself is interesting. Perhaps the sub-title should be the title.

Nancy, I think you make some great points. However, I don't see cause marketing as being abused by the two companies that you highlight. Macy's is supporting numerous charities with its sale.

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Darin Phillips — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:06:19 -0500

Thank you for making me aware of this fabulous presentation. Given that Nathan did a great job of looking at design from a very macro stance, the information is easily digestible and should be applicable at the organizational and personal levels as well. Hopefully, his audience will look for the natural connections for applying this line of thinking at work and at home.

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Darin Phillips — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:27:48 -0500

From these comments, it sounds as if Obama could quickly create job opportunities for highly skilled Americans, but they would be overseas. That is clearly why the Middle East, who is still hungry for foreign expertise, has many countries that do not tax foreign nationals working in their countries.

To the point of the article, Microsoft has a very savvy talent management group and I suspect that they have already met with executives to understand the near-term future of the company so that they can create workforce plans that meet those needs.

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Darin Phillips — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:54:24 -0500

Kaplan and Norton's balanced score card can be applied to individual contributors to prevent the myopic problems that you have highlighted in this article. A decent performance management consultant will always tease out the various ways to defeat the incentive system and build in safeguards that create a well-rounded view of performance to be rewarded.

Merrill Lynch should not want their traders to take time out of the day to train a new hire. That responsibility should fall on the person who is incentivized to ensure that new hires succeed, the boss of the new hire.

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Darin Phillips — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:49:49 -0500

Identifying Critical Job Competencies

Darin Phillips — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:17:06 -0400

At the core of any usable human capital management system is a set of
competencies that drive the activities that lead to desired results.
The goal is to have the right people (those with the right aptitude,
knowledge, experience, skills, abilities, and traits) doing the right
work at the right time the right way. If all of these factors have been
optimized then your organization will achieve superior results. Tieing
this concept to Kaplan and Norton's balanced scorecard, employees that
know or have access to timely information can efficiently and

Talent Management

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Darin Phillips — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:50:17 -0400

Tom, I read the article because of the title, but the two are not even remotely related. You do seem to claim, albeit in a very round-about way, that online social networking is replacing face-to-face networking or job interviews. However, you provide no evidence to support this claim. I suppose this article was written so that you could finally publish a few pithy comments that have been bottled up inside... Yes, it has some redeeming value as a humorous article.

Fast Talk Response -

Darin Phillips — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:24:59 -0400

What does 3-5 years of work experience really tell you about someone? Only that they were employed.

How would dropping this requirement result in more women entering MBA programs? There is no evidence that this discourages applications.

This is about as ridiculous as beliefs about the value of tenure and resume parsing. The most tenured individual is often burned out and the only candidates that rise to the top when resumes are parsed are those that have inflated their resumes with all of the relevant keywords.

Fast Talk Response -

Darin Phillips — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:53:25 -0400

They succumb to temptation. It may come in the form of one of the seven deadly sins such as greed, or it may come in the form of a Tom Sawyer lie. There is so much pressure to inflate results that they participate in commission or omission.