Mike West

Mike West is a founding member of the first People Analytics teams at Merck, PetSmart, Google, Children's Health (Dallas), Jawbone, and Pure Storage. Mike can currently be found writing the People Analytics for Dummies Book for Wiley, designing tools for data workflow, analysis, modeling & decision support for Headcount and Compensation Planning, and I spends his free time in the triangle of Austin (TX), San Francisco (CA) and Springfield (MO).

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How to Game the Best Company to Work For Awards

This is continued from a "Gloves Off Friday Post" by Mike West on Linkedin Pulse here: How the Best Company Award is Wrong

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How your company is doing People Analytics poorly (even if you think you aren't doing People Analytics)

You may not think your company is yet doing People Analytics but here is one way your employer is already doing so, poorly. Employers routinely use...

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Does People Analytics Work? #PAQA

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.” Henry Ford, Lord Lever, John Wanamaker... People often...

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#1 Reason People Quit Google and What They Are Doing About It

# 1 Reason people leave google: to connect with their personal calling to change the world. Ironically, it is also the number one reason people join...

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My Learning From People Analytics & The Future Of Work #PAFOW

I spent four days in San Francisco visiting People Analytics professionals and attending Al Adamsen's Talent Strategy Institute : People Analytics...

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The Work of Freedom is Not Finished : People Analytics and Diversity.

January 18th, 2016 In the 53 years that has passed since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech America has clearly come a...

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The Most Dangerous Technology in HR Today

Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? Oh no, not I. I will survive. - Gloria Gaynor, "I will Survive". 2002, White House...

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5 Reasons HR Analytics Efforts Stall and a New Way Forward

"Life is a struggle, and then you die" So go make something of it. Work on something important and watch over these things. The 5 Reasons Most HR...

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What Your HR Analytics Technology Sales Rep Doesn't Want You To Know

“This the real world, homie, school finished. They done stole your dreams, you dunno who did it.” Kayne West (no relation) A New People Analytics...

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Reasons Why I am Joining One Model

To whom it may concern, For the last 2 years I am proud to have run my own People Analytics consulting company - PeopleAnalyst, which I like to call...

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