Haiku: Noun. A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
Today my blog post
Is based on the haiku form
Will it work or not?
I spoke with Heather
Tweeting from a conference
About HR tech
She encouraged me
To give haiku tweets a try
Here are some of mine
Data has a soul
And to find it you must search
Way down in the mine
Data makes patterns
Numbers as flow and beauty
Your work is your art
Human capital
A name devoid of feelings
I’m not a number
HRTech Haiku
Sort the data from the flow
Aha! Now I see
Data in the cloud
It’s raining information
Drowning in numbers
Heather wrote some too
She said I could share with you
OK here we go
Data are just bits
Of fact, wrapped up in stories
Truth requires both
Data cannot drive.
It doesn’t do anything
Unless asked nicely
Workforce analytics
How do we measure spirit?
With data ripples
Engage your data
Algorithms need love too.
No more lonely code
Great #HRTechConf
Have a people hangover.
My brain is too full.
Creativity
Ofen driven by constraint
You do more with less
Doug, I will confess to just reacting to your post, possibly superficially, but I am surprised at the dominance of “data” in haikus about HR. It feels like the wrong message.
I am not a number! 🙂
Ian.
Thanks Ian. Indeed there are a lot of data references. To clarify the context, this was a series of exchanges in and around an HR Tech conference, hence the skew in the content. The second haiku in the post has a reference to this – perhaps I should have made it clearer. I’ll try and think of an haiku response through the day.
Cheers – Doug
I can offer you this one
Everything a number
Really made of flesh and bone
No good for business!
Hi folks – Heather Bussing has published a related post with more haikus and some lovely photographs too. Here is the link:
http://www.hrexaminer.com/hr-tech-haiku/