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Paul Byron of the NYT called the platypus a classic animal design by committee. Look at that thing. He cites a poem about the composite animal:
I like the duck-billed platypus
Because it is anomalous.
I like the way it raises its family,
Pa ... Continue reading »
Paul Byron of the NYT called the platypus a classic animal design by committee. Look at that thing. He cites a poem about the composite animal:
I like the duck-billed platypus
Because it is anomalous.
I like the way it raises its family,
Pa ... Continue reading »
4 months ago
My take on HR "platypused communication" is that the message is frequently hard to understand by the average employee because of the legaleze and/or the use of jargon coined by Human Resources.
The other problem is our tendency to candy-coat a negative message. Somewhere buried in that communique from HR is the information that the employee now has a copay that has doubled.
Then we wonder why our PR is not so hot!
I always tried to look at our HR communication from the employees' eyeballs.