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This is my professional journal (with a strong personal touch), with the title “Watch the World Changing!”
This is the space where I share stories, lessons, and reflections from my HR and change management journey.
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It’s the end of the year – a period of performance appraisals, calibration meetings, and clear (sometimes hard) realizations about who actually gets seen. Here is the pattern I’ve often observed working in a matrix organization:You are nailing it. Stakeholders love your work. Projects are landing. Impact is real. But your functional manager – the
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If you want better collaboration and meaningful career progression, start by understanding how you’re wired – and how others experience you. A couple of years ago, I received strong feedback about the impact I sometimes left behind. I’ll be brutally honest here – it wasn’t always positive.My work was excellent. Stakeholders valued my expertise. But
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Over the course of my career, I’ve experienced acquisitions from several perspectives – first as an HR leader guiding cultural transformation after a merger, later overseeing the integration of a corporate group, and eventually representing the acquiring company in reviewing a target’s HR operations. Across these experiences, I’ve learned that while financial diligence identifies the
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The risks of AI in hiring became evident years ago, when Amazon discovered that its recruitment algorithm consistently downgraded applicants who mentioned women’s colleges or female-led groups on their résumés. Trained on ten years of historical data that reflected past hiring patterns, the system had “learned” that successful candidates were mostly men. (To be fair,
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Structures built around people, not purpose. Reporting lines drawn to keep the peace because redefining roles feels uncomfortable. Leaders with two direct reports while others juggle twenty. Titles that don’t quite match responsibilities. You’ve seen this, too. Everything looks fine. Everyone has a place. In reality, it’s a quiet chaos. The kind that drains energy,
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I was young, a not-so-experienced HR lead in a mid-sized company that had just been taken into private ownership. The Managing Director was open to innovation, and I was eager to bring in what I had learned earlier. The process of “performance review” was one of the big topics in my degree. So I did
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Since the adoption of the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive (2019/1937), companies with over 50 employees have been legally obliged to provide internal reporting channels and protect those who speak up. Hungary transposed the directive into national law in 2023, introducing whistleblower systems as a compliance requirement for all mid-sized and large employers. However, the transposition
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Once I raised a pay equity issue. On that very day, I was taken off the talent list. I had felt proud when I was promoted into a higher-grade role with broad responsibilities, even though I found the salary low for the position. This unfortunate scenario often occurs when internal candidates are promoted without proper
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