Inside information about a range of high impact leadership and communications topics

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Launching a communications advisory

It’s official! Otter Advisory 2.0 is now live. I’ve worn many hats in my career: crime reporter, technical writer, freelance ...
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HR tech applications vendors. Build HR tech applications.

I admit, I’m spending too much time doom-scrolling in twitter, but between the wailing and gnashing...
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User interfaces are not just look and feel. Words matter.

I have seen more HR software user interfaces (UI) than almost anyone on this planet. I reckon there...
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Accessibility and the courts. HRTECH held to account?

T-shirt. Ironing is optional, accessibility isn’t. HRTECH and inaccessibility Over the course of...
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Melting HR bureaucracy

The tastiest employment contract I‘ve ever seen. German version here. We talk a lot about making HR...
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Happy 2nd anniversary.

After almost 20 years at SAP, Thomas and I decided that I become the first employee at Otter...
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The difficult second album. Advice for HRTECH vendors.

Warning: long, rambling metaphor. Readers of my blog and twitter feed will have seen that I have an...
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On technical debt.

I solved a major domestic technical debt project last weekend. In my basement I had a box of...
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Made in Germany

This post originally appeared in German on the Haufe Personal website. I write a regular column...
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