The Identity Circle Blog

The Problem with Human Resources

Posted By: Larry Ackerman on Aug 11, 2008 @ 01:11 AM | Comments (1)

For all the value it provides to organizations, “human resources” may not be doing itself a favor when it comes to how it describes itself to the world.

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Keywords: career development, corporate culture, executive titles, happiness, human, humanity, identity, individuality, leadership, personal development, potential

Who is GE without all its parts?

Posted By: Larry Ackerman on May 15, 2008 @ 03:57 AM | Comment (2)

In the business section of The New York Times this morning, there's an article about GE planning to sell its appliance division, the oldest business in the company's 120 year history. The sharks are circling...investors are making more and more noise about selling off other parts as well.

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Keywords: brand, change, corporate culture, GE, identity, integrity, leadership, Norsk Hydro, transitions

An identity for Obama

Posted By: Larry Ackerman on May 07, 2008 @ 02:50 AM | Comment (2)

"What identity could Barack Obama choose that will be both sincere and successful?" This is the opening line of a recent article from Chron.com entitled, The Search for an Identity that works for Barack Obama. My answer? The one he was born with. Politics labors under the weight of its obsession with "becoming" something or someone other than who you already are. Why? What's wrong with being yourself?

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Keywords: brand, identity, integrity, Obama, politics

What Eliot Spitzer is hiding isn't just about sex

Posted By: Larry Ackerman on Mar 12, 2008 @ 06:52 AM | Comment (2)

Eliot Spitzer had a lot going for him, at least, as measured by his attempts to right many seeming injustices that, to most of us, needed fixing - outsized pay packages to undeserving CEO's among them. In some ways, it's a shame that Spitzer got outed for having a night (a few hours?) with a high priced prostitute; on balance, he was doing a lot of public good.

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Keywords: identity, politics, scandal

What should you do with your life?

Posted By: Larry Ackerman on Dec 14, 2007 @ 04:42 AM | No comments

Last week, the New York Times ran an article, entitled What Do I Do? What Week It Is about a guy named Sean Aiken, who was trying out a new job every week for a year. The article quotes Sean as saying, "We have been told our whole life that anything is possible. Well, our parents did a great job, cause now we actually believe it."

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Keywords: career development, happiness, human, identity, individuality, personal development

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