Thanks to all who made #MasterPlan2014 great. Here's a short summary video:
It has been a phenomenally engaging and enjoyable couple of weeks as ATC Events and Kienco ran the #Masterplan2014 Strategic Workforce Planning conference in Melbourne (26/27 March) and then Wellington (1/2 April). Some photos and videos are coming, but for now I'll just reiterate my heartfelt thanks to the following people:
Back in feudal Japan, ninjas were revered warriors whose functions included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination. Unfortunately, career prospects dried up for Ninjas in the 1600's due to the unification of Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate. Today, job prospects for Ninjas are slim.
Embrace innovation - and a touch of the bizarre - by thinking like Howard Hughes. Because there is no box to think outside of when you're Howard Hughes.
If all of your HR practices are common practices, you don't have a strategy.
This should be interesting... I'll be debating Kevin Wheeler of the Future of Talent Institute at #Masterplan2014. Kevin was recently listed as a top-10 Human Potential Influencer, something to add to his long list of accolades. I, on the other hand, well... um... I was Time Magazine's person of the year in 2006. Sort of. So a pretty even match-up.
Today, Facebook celebrates its' 10th Birthday, and Mark Zuckerberg's post talks about connectedness and how the world has changed in the past decade. He also refers to how social media will change over the next 10 years to become as much about solving problems as about sharing moments, particularly in light of new technologies which will have us generating and sharing more data.
