October 20, 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. Research from the Aberdeen Group shows that only 31 percent of organizations have a formal strategy for designing, implementing and […]
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September 27, 2013 by Ken Nowack
Most medium to large size organizations have some version of “high potential†programs. These are programs designed to identify and prepare future leaders for larger roles. These elite pools of employees are often officially or unofficially labeled as “hiposâ€, “rising Starsâ€, “fast trackersâ€, or “the chosenâ€. Companies often don’t come right and tell you if […]
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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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August 25, 2013 by Ken Nowack
“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” Benjamin Mays How do people become elite? And once they do, how do they sustain it? It is well established that competitive pressure influences performance. But exactly how and why has not been systematically researched. […]
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August 18, 2013 by Ken Nowack
“Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.” Ross Perot Talent today are stressed, highly disengaged, ready to leave organizations when the economy improves and doing less work with more resources. For example, a recent global survey (over 3,100 organizations in Asia, Europe, […]
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August 4, 2013 by Ken Nowack
“That which does not destroy, strengthens.” Friedrich Nietzsche Why do some talent in the face of work and life stress experience job burnout, depression and physical illness and others remain physically and psychologically healthy? Our research has found three distinct coping patterns in the face of work and life stressors: 1) Hot reactors (those who get […]
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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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June 30, 2013 by Ken Nowack
“People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.†George Carlin A recent study by Dr. Jean Decety, a professor in psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago and colleagues at the University of Chicago has found that the brain scans of […]
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June 23, 2013 by Ken Nowack
“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” Sam Walton The Leadership-Employee Engagement Connection I’m not sure that it’s any great secret that leaders influence the level of commitment and engagementof their talent. Nobody likes […]
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June 16, 2013 by Ken Nowack
“My reputation grows with every failure.” George Bernard Shaw How are we seen by others? Are we seen the same by our boss, colleagues, family members, friends and others? What are they actually evaluating? Current research suggests that we are globally evaluated by everyone on two universal aspects of human behavior ((Judd, C. et al., […]
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