HRbots and the false comfort of quantification
One of my favourite cartoon characters is the evil HR director Catbert, from the Dilbert series. Catbert epitomises the Machiavellian intrigues and Catch 22s that epitomise the HRarchy. The character would be funny if she wasn't so accurate.Catbert i...
HRbots and the false comfort of quantification
One of my favourite cartoon characters is the evil HR director Catbert, from the Dilbert series. Catbert epitomises the Machiavellian intrigues and Catch 22s that epitomise the HRarchy. The character would be funny if she wasn't so accurate.Catbert i...
Meritocractic mistakes
Paul Kedrosky has a fascinating post on Infectious Greed about the Peter Principle.The principle says, of course, that people climb in an organization until they reach their level of maximum incompetence...Kedrosky discusses a simulation of organisatio...
