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ABOUT BRANDON MORENO

Brandon Moreno, founder of Leading Edge Thought, is a distinguished speaker, author, business advisor and the transformation strategist. Mr. Moreno is the creator of the 4-M Paradigm^TM system, a program designed to take people to the next level – guiding them to get more out of life by shattering their inner illusions. He offers transformational workshops and speaking engagements to businesses and individuals, helping them move from where they are to where they want to be.

Mr. Moreno sits on the board of directors for the San Diego Recruiters Roundtable (SDRR) and is a certified mediator for the National Conflict Resolution Center and Superior Courts.

Brandon Moreno
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Recently, I was researching a topic and I came across a wonderful free online information service from the Harvard Business School, “HBS Working Knowledge” that SDRR members may find helpful. You may sign up for a free weekly subscription at http://hbswk.hbs.edu

Today, the weekly e-zine of sorts had a link to a “Q&A with Max. H. Bazerman” a Harvard Business School professor. The Q &A concerned a working paper Professor Bazerman has co-authored with three professors from other business schools on “Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goals Setting.” You may read the Q&A article by going to: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/cgi-bin/print?id=5969

I found this Q&A article very thought provoking and recommend it to any HR professional or HR consultant involved in helping senior and line managers in an organization setting goals. Professor Bazerman really caught my attention with the example he gave at the beginning of the article of a time when corporate goal setting went bad. He used the example of the now infamous Ford Pinto that had been built in the early 1970s under the corporate goal of building a car “under 2,000 pounds and under $2,000.” To achieve this goal, Ford employees wound up overlooking safety testing and 53 people died in rear-end collisions when their vulnerable gas tanks exploded. One of my cousins could have been one of those victims. The first car she bought while working her way through college was a Pinto. She needed an inexpensive car to commute to school and work. I remember those headlines about that car. She had a lot of trouble trading that Pinto in for a safer car. There is a link to the working paper and a reading list at the end of the article. I think the article is a very timely one. When times get hard, under increased pressures, managers may be inclined to set more challenging goals. They may run a risk of inadvertently causing unsafe or unethical behaviors or set in motion other unintended negative consequences. We’ve seen a lot of examples of other goals that went bad in the past few months. I’d be very interested in hearing what others in SDRR think of this article.

Other topics I’d like to explore further with others on SDRR are:

• How has the economy contributed to you doing HR, Staffing/Recruiting, or Consulting business differently at your organization?
• What creative and no to low cost ideas have you implemented recently to help save your organization money or time, or increase revenues, or improve employee engagement that you may have implemented recently that you’d be willing to share with others in the SDRR?

Mona Melanson
Sr. HR Consultant
Aviso HR Associates, LLC
619-405-0262
www.avisohr.com