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Top 100 v1.67 Jason Averbook

Posted on 02. Aug, 2010 by JohnSumser.

Jason Averbook is the founder and CEO of Knowledge Infusion, the most rapidly growing firm on the HR Consulting front lines. We had been playing a game of meeting phone tag for most of the past 6 months. KI’s rapid growth and Averbrook’s legendary focus on customer satisfaction are at the heart of the scheduling conflicts. Finally, early on a Friday morning, we made the connection.

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Top 100 v1.66: Kevin Martin

Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by JohnSumser.

Industry analysts occupy a unique position of trust. They work closely with vendors in order to establish opinions and insight about the companies and their offerings. Rather than deploy a full time team to wade through everything in the technology arena, most companies outsource their research (whether or not they think of it this way) to Industry Analysts. Analysts parse information about features, functionality, trends and products that would overwhelm an individual HR practitioner.

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Top 100 v1.65 Jim Holincheck

Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by JohnSumser.

Top 100 Influencers in HR v1.65 Jim Holincheck
Gartner (IT) is the preeminent IT research firm. With 650 analysts covering over 1,000 subspecialties, the firm wields mighty influence over the IT industry. Their value proposition is nicely summarized by a customer (who i quoted on their website):
“Without Gartner, we’d likely find ourselves perpetually overspending on technology [...]

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Top 100 v1.64 Josh Bersin

Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by JohnSumser.

Top 100 v1.64 Josh Bersin
Josh Bersin is living proof that you can create influence from whole cloth. In seven and a half years, his eponymous company, Bersin and Associates, has come from nowhere to extraordinary industry prominence. His small team is increasingly responsible for the way that HR sees itself.
In 2001, with 20 years of [...]

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Top 100 v1.63 RD Whitney

Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by JohnSumser.

Top 100 v1.63 RD Whitney
Grit, determination and a smile go a long way towards building sustained influence. The intellects all assume that influence and smarts are somehow correlated. The truth is that it’s hard to trust someone who is busy being smart.
Influence has more to do with reliability and predictability than it has to do [...]

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Top 100 v1.62: Ryan Johnson

Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by JohnSumser.

Top 100 v1.62: Ryan Johnson
The process of trying to identify patterns of influence in the HR-Recruiting Industry has been revealing. The domain is composed of a number of subordinate silos and the totality is only loosely tied together. If you ask a Recruiter who Jay Cross or Ann Bares are, you’ll draw blank stares. (Hint: [...]

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Top 100 v1.61: ERE Expo – Center of Influence

Posted on 23. Mar, 2010 by JohnSumser.

Top 100 v1.61: ERE Expo – Center of Influence
Influence is hard to distinguish from celebrity. Being well known is one of the components of influence. (It’s almost impossible to be influential if no one knows who you are.) We are in the age of the democratizion of celebrity, the post-privacy world. People rise to the [...]

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Top 100 v1.60 Gautam Ghosh

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by JohnSumser.

In India, Gautam Ghosh was trying to sort out his place in the world. After a series of starts in the hotel industry and pharma sales, he’d picked up an MBA from XLRI school of Business and Human Resources, one of the country’s leading universities, in 1999. While trying to build career traction, Gautam launched his blog in 2002.

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Top 100 v1.59 Jeremy Shapiro

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by JohnSumser.

Top 100 v1.59 Jeremy Shapiro
In yesterday’s review of the SHRM HR Standards project, we looked at the interesting effort the professional association is generating. Standards, analytics and metrics are an integral part of the emerging world of global commerce. Jeremy Shapiro, the Bernard Hodes Group (Hodes) senior Vice President at HodesIQ, is on top [...]

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Reconsidering Influence

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by JohnSumser.

Reconsidering Influence
Last week, we published the Top 25 Most Influential Online Recruiters list on the HR Examiner. Each of the 25 people profiled are major contributors to the online dialog. They have large followings, generate significant traffic and make a powerful impact in the niches in which they operate.
The list created a small stir with [...]