September 15, 2013 by Ken Nowack
“42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.” Steven Wright Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. A 2012 study in the journal Occupational Medicine suggests that older men with stressful jobs and little decision latitude are […]
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July 28, 2013 by Ken Nowack
“42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.” Steven Wright Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. A 2012 survey of 3,892 US workers reported that 35 percent of all employees have been bullied at work. The […]
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July 16, 2013 by Wally Bock
Once upon a time, not very long ago, brain teaser questions seemed to be the thing. After all, Google and Amazon were successful, and they asked brain teaser questions, so companies around the world started asking them, too. Then Laszlo Bock (no relation), the senior vice president of people operations at Google, told the New […]
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April 28, 2013 by Ken Nowack
“42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.” Steven Wright Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. A recent study of 440 leaders at more than 300 global companies by Interaction Associates on trust levels finds […]
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February 17, 2013 by Ken Nowack
“42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.” Steven Wright Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. Only 2 percent of human resources executives say yearly evaluations are useful, according to a recent poll of 2,677 people […]
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December 23, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.” Steven Wright Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. In 2011, Oxford Economics built a unique global ranking model based on a weighted composite index to compare and benchmark […]
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November 11, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.” Steven Wright Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. Half of all employees who say that they do not feel valued at work report that they intend to look […]
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October 7, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.” Steven Wright Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. People lie more often when sending text messages than in any other forms of communication, according to a new research. […]
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September 16, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.” Paris Hilton Does your name have any real impact on your career and life success? If so, we should take a look at the top baby names for 2011 in the United States: Boys: Aiden, Jackson, Mason, Liam, Jacob, Jayden, Ethan and […]
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July 29, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.” Steven Wright Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. A couple of recent surveys suggest that most workers really don’t want their boss’s job. In a US based survey […]
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