Quick article here.

The key line -

"Data showed that the top four priorities for HR managers today are performance management, skills and competency management, succession planning, and learning management. At the same time, responses indicate that HR managers believe they have the least amount of expertise in these four functional areas. According to the research, only 35% of organisations have any type of automated performance management system and 58% rely on paper based processes. A significant majority – 68% -- of respondents indicated that integration of learning and HR systems is critical or important to their organisations."

That's the problem of course, with performance and skills management systems.  About 60 to 70 percent of the HR departments, talent agents, etc, simply don't have the time to create these jobs and models.  That's why even when there is an organization that is utilizing a learning management system - and they get some performance and competency management piece as part of the package - studies show that 70% of these systems go unused, or at least vastly underutilized.

I've been away for awhile, and haven't posted.  Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

Outside of my own practice, I've been one of the watchers of the Integral Wiki. 

What this means is occasionally adding something, and then also occasionally reverting pages. when the wiki version of spam hits the site.

Because of my involvement with Integral Wiki, I have now registered with the main Wikipedia. 

After doing this, I've now come across a couple of cool WikiProjects. 

One I will point to now, is the Wikiproject for Spirituality and also the Wikiportal for Spirituality.

Both of these come with "To Do" lists, places where people can contribute. 

It's interesting to look through, and I will most likely start double posting anything that I do to the IntegralWiki, back to the main Wiki portal.

 I pretty much don't use any other rss reader anymore.  Between the stars, and the tags, I'm finding that Google Reader gets all my needs and - MOST of the time, is quick loading.

Things I would love to still see -

Searching WITHIN my feeds - the My Web functionality of Yahoo.  (I wonder if there is a way to combine them both - hmmm...)
Expanding tag and label functionality, easier way to tag.
Rate posts from within reader.

Other things I will think of later...

Saw this article on the New York Times, about LIME, "Healthy Living With a Twist".

Called a "New Age" channel - and it does have Deepak Chopra - what I notice is the full multi-media platform.  Like Integral Naked, or like Noetic Institute's Shift In Action, the platform includes video, audio - and in the case of LIME, blogging.   Probably some other stuff I haven't run across...

Also, from a simple marketing perspective - I notice that there will be a radio channel on Sirius, for LIME. 

Given the amount of material at Integral Naked now, I wonder if anyone over there has thought of arranging alternative distributions of some of the multimedia content on Integral Naked?

Lastly - given the explosion of content - video, audio, text, blogging, that now inundates anyone who is "connected", the last remaining puzzle which isn't present is community programs and participation.

Now that Google Base has been release, it's time to talk about how Google Base can contribute to the open source accumulation of spiritual realization.  This builds on yesterday's post, about data collection to evaluate and build models of behavior and practice which can be confirmed or disconfirmed.

Take a look at Google Base, for the moment.  I'll have much more to say later. 

Saw this article on the Google process. 

It's a fascinating article, for a few reasons -

One, they hire the best of the best, and they make sure to get people who not only are smart, but who are also easy to work with, by insisting on like-minded cooperation, and not "personal".  A few examples:

a. No one can call an idea "stupid".
b. An emphasis on teamwork:  "Some brilliant prospects don't get hired, flaming out when background checks show they are difficult to work with. "It takes discipline not to hire some of these people, they are so smart," says engineering chief Alan Eustace. "But it also doesn't take much for a single person to subtract 10% from everyone else. Very quickly, that reduces your total output.""
c. "In some meetings people aren't allowed to say "I think … " but instead must say "The data suggest … "

So the social and interpersonal aspects of a person, are just as important as the intelligence of that person.  You can see that this minimizes the ego clashes, between otherwise brilliant people.  In integral language, good development lines in both social, cooperative, and of course technical skills.

For as long as it lasts, this truly is the "flatter" networked company of the future - much less hierarchy, projects developed and then abandoned if they don't work (no attachment!), tremendous productivity and flexibility.

One last point - the emphasis on data. 

After spending time on the Integral Spirituality draft last night, I got to thinking about what a tremendous proposal Integral Methodological Pluralism is.  To take any aspect of a situation, and INVESTIGATE this situation from one of the eight angles. 

The example uses is Kohlberg, and moral development. 

In this situation, Kohlberg gathered data over YEARS, and then collated this data into a hypothesis of the nature of moral growth and development. (The 3rd person perspective of 1st person values). 

Various integral claims, meditation claims, and practice claims, require similar data sets, in order to move a hypothesis to beyond a pleasing story. 

Otherwise, there simply remain disconnected claims, for various dimensions of life.

Perhaps in the future, there will be applications that allow people to act, in small groups, and submit data.  Here's a process proposal.

Meditation practice for 30 minutes, with a diary submittal. Have a group of 10-100, to however many more, doing this.

a. The person Mark beginning of practice - the person submits that he has practice started on cellphone.
b. Person submits that the practice session has ended.
c. At end of practice, record online diary of experience (or perhaps submit diary by voice to go to online repository).
c. That data can then be collated, analyzed, cross-referenced and compared (perhaps with pre-existing personality evaluations), so that theories such as Kohlberg's are more easily created - or more easily dismissed.

I think the connected internet phone - or some similar unobtrusive gadget - is the only way to get these type of real time, large, datasets recovered.

Any other thoughts on this?

From the English edition of Der Spiegel.

Good article, fleshing out all points of view. More in-depth than most other articles I've seen on this.

I've continued to experiment with Google Reader, and the functionality keeps getting better.  I am now receiving podcasts from Integral Naked at Google Reader - and it's great, because I can access them from anywhere.

Here's the link by the way -

http://www.integralnaked.org/podcast/atom.xml


Here, for example, is Ken Wilber on Tonglen

Great diagram from How to Save the World, about how social networking works, and the tech tools that have developed to serve this need.