If there is one consistent aspect to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA; aka ACA; aka ObamaCare), it is perhaps the legislation's undoubted inconsistency.

Can a Victorian poet writing about a Renaissance painter seemingly missing the forest for the canvas teach us anything about the current challenges facing the HR business – including putting the “human” element back in “Human Resources?”

Amid a still-sluggish global economy, we read a great deal more about jobs being subtracted from corporate payrolls than those being added these days.