Naming an HR database after Star Trek villains wasn't a good omen
This is the second in our series of posts around the idea of “managing by cliches.”
During the past few weeks, I’ve been involved in a number of on-line and real-life discussions about the merits of various performance evaluation systems. One colleague described a particular system as being powerful but “difficult to learn and implement.” This brought mind past experiences implementing unwieldy systems — times when it seemed that rather than the system working for us, we were working for the system (never a desirable state of affairs).
The Klingon System
Once about a time, I worked for a Fortune-500 company that chose to implement “Klingon” as its HRIS database. OK — that wasn’t really its name Continue reading
