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 Before now, when HR people gather, they share experiences. But today, HR people gather  to share knowledge. The reason for the current practice is that we have no experiences to share. We dwell on what ought to be and not how we have applied our knowledge to real situations. When we hold the microphone, we say things that do not and/or cannot happen in our places of work. We pontificate about Talent Management but when we move on, there is nobody to step into our shoes. We lack the capacity to work with the people we meet on ground. Let us talk, is there anyone who can succeed you in your present job apart from the praise singer you brought onboard after shifting aside who was the next in line? Would management accept this your praise singer to take over from you? Share your verifiable story.

 I did not steal from the State. He never stole any money from the State. No funds are missing from the State treasury. His stolen money being returned belong to this State. REALLY, Monkitail brains, "IDIOTS"

 When did the earth take it's present shape of different continents? About 3000 years after the fall of man. Genesis 10:25

 Before now HR was populated by men and women who had capacity, audacity, responsibility, integrity, ego, and stature who were ready to stake their honour for what they knew and the advises they gave. Contrarily, now HR is populated by men and women who strayed in, lack capacity and integrity, cannot take responsibility, ready to compromise, for ego massage purposes, ready to say Yes sir and only to protect their meal ticket. We have so lowered HR that people from outside are dictating what goes on in the content and practice of HR with lip service to advocacy. How many practitioners today can put their positions on-line for the professional advice they give? 

 Why would a man with authority threaten to name people working against the common good of the society instead of taking action? It is lack of integrity and trust.

 Another new HR style is putting old wine into new skin. Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 summarized the new HR STYLES in which some of us are walking a "big monkey man" In our attempt to appear new, we pick old reliable concepts, give them new names without bothering to change their contents (see the question I asked in the second week of November, 2020). Here, I need education as to the differences in content between the following: - Succession planing Vs Talent Management. - Induction Vs On-boarding. - Invitation letter Vs Letter of invite. - Industrial relations Vs Employee relations. - Staff/Management Interaction Vs Staff Engagement. - HR Internal Consultant Vs HR Business Partner. - KRA & KPI Vs Accountability Matrix I am looking forward to hearing from you.

 Lack of integrity and trust can show in small and simple actions such as profile pictures, reaction to jokes from friends, consistent lies, selective perception and self fulfilling prophecy etc etc.

 What is the eleventh commandment added by Nigerian politicians? Thou shalt not be found out.

 It is correct to say that International Best Practice is someone else's national best practice. HR Practitioners have turned Aping to a style in my country in the name of International Best Practice. It is quite sickening to see that practitioners can no longer do something as simple as job advertisement with correct job titles. Only three examples to drive home the point: - Storekeeper Officer. - HOD HSC Role-. - Employee Relations Manager in a Unionized company. There are highly placed practitioners that have deleted Sect.20 of the Nigerian Labour Act 1974 as amended.

 Lack of integrity and trust makes a government to campaign inperpetuity by saying "we shall, we will" instead of saying We have done ....

 Looking for a jealous and stingy woman? Find a woman who does not allow her husband to go in unto her housemaid. Genesis 30:3,9.

 From the numerous interviews I attended and the ones I conducted, in which I was hired and I hired several applicants, I wish to share with you what informed the decisions for hiring Yours Truly and my hiring of others. They are as follows: - General intelligence. - Knowledge of the subject area. - Relevant experience. - Attitude. - Current pay/expectation. - Religion. - Ethnic group. - Region. - Availability of vacancy. - Reference.

 Lack of integrity and trust makes a government to send armed forces against unarmed civilians protesting but goes negotiating with bandits and terrorists.