Orwellian Musings

I have a post up on Fistful of Talent - a blog driven by the thoughts of multiple authors focused on the issue of talent management - from recruiting through - well you know, replacing.

My post today references an article from Businessweek on the ability to quantify employee activity and use an equation to allocate resources.  Sound a bit icky?  You bet.  Here's a snippet...

"These models might one day include whether the workers eat beef or pork, how seriously they take the Sabbath, whether a bee sting or a peanut sauce could lay them low. No doubt, some of them thrive even in the filthy air in Beijing or Mexico City, while others wheeze. If so, the models would eventually include this detail, among countless others. The idea is to build richly textured models that behave in their symbolic realm just like their flesh-and-blood counterparts. Then planners can manipulate them, looking for the most efficient combinations. "

Hop over to FOT and see where this might go.