My post on comparing HR and IT as service parts of the organization once again brought out the best in my readers. Miki at Leadership Turn gave her usual, and appreciated, “words-that-we-would-like-to-say-but-don’t” in regard to a McKinsey Quarterly’s quote “only HR can translate a business strategy into a detailed talent strategy…”:
“That has to be the stupidest statement that ever came out of McKinsey! I spent 25 years as a recruiter and another decade teaching line managers better hiring skills and in most instances HR has neither the knowledge nor the business acumen to detail staffing needs for any project, tech …read more

My post “Consulting Customers! Get Your Act Together” elicited some good response from Sensei at ActiveEngine and Miki at Leadership Turn. I lamented about companies who are unable to pull the trigger on the next phase of a valuable project. Miki appropriately focused on the business culture required to enable standardized executive decision making processes; Sensei gave a great example of an organizational structure that enabled decision making:
“In this particular case there was a PMO which acted as a mentor to a sales department charged with re-vamping their prospecting and acquisition processes and systems. The PMO, with the department head, …read more