Comments on: The Harder Stuff – Leadership, Culture and Change

By: Kathleen Paris

Kathleen Paris — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:17:26 +0000

I appreciated your reference to the “harder stuff.” In “Soft Skills—Call Them What They Are” (kathleenparis.com) I suggested that we call that constellation of skills “higher order skills.” As long as we call them “soft skills,” we can’t take them seriously. Thanks so much for keeping the discussion going.

By: HR Where Art Though? – Opposable Planets

HR Where Art Though? – Opposable Planets — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:01:36 +0000

[...] the workplace and you will hear the same thing; “it’s the people stupid.” (what I call “The Harder Stuff”) The primary resistance to the new operating principles at work in social technologies lies [...]

By: Pirates and Poohbahs Unite! « Opposable Planets

Pirates and Poohbahs Unite! « Opposable Planets — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:14:52 +0000

[...] you want to harness the power of social technologies to transform business get ready to tackle the harder stuff – leadership, change and culture. This requires both Pirates and [...]

By: CJ

CJ — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:44:05 +0000

This is dead on. I am finding more and more that our social web strategies hit the wall when it comes to the people side of the equation – that is your harder stuff. But you know if you look at most orgs (mine included) all of the time and money is spent on your “hard stuff” – everything else is ignored. This is why I think that it will be the small firms that get all the advantages of social media.