Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about setting development goals for 2016, why leadership development fails, how leadership development is crucial […]

Leadership development is a big, important thing. The effectiveness and often the fate of a company or a team hinges on how well the leader does his or her job. But the most effective leaders do a lot of little things that don’t get much publicity at all. I started thinking about this when I […]

Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about hiring leadership development talent, data versus discretion in hiring, leadership development and inborn traits, […]

Maura C. Ciccarelli’s HREOnline post, “Data vs. Discretion in Hiring,” includes the following provocative statement. “The authors also suggest that ‘managers exercise discretion because they are biased or have poor judgment, not because they are better informed. This implies that firms in our setting can further improve match quality by limiting managerial discretion and placing […]

Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about effective learning implementations, 50 ways to leverage learning, the need for more global leadership […]

The title of the article in Perspectives(at)SMU seemed straightforward: “HR of the Future.” Then subhead added something else: “Business-minded HR practitioners are needed to take the organisation forward.” Leadership development should be the core of competitive advantage The company’s leaders make the choices that result in success or failure. That’s why leadership development is the […]

Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about winning in the workforce revolution, leadership development in 2016, ATD’s 2015 State of the […]

In his post at HREOnline, Mark McGraw asks: “Are Managers Cutting It As Coaches?” Here’s a key paragraph. “In a survey of 117 vice presidents of talent management, vice presidents and directors of HR, directors of personnel and CHROs, talent-management software provider SilkRoad found 45 percent of these respondents saying their managers lack the skills […]

Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about improving learning in leadership development, keeping your leadership development plans current, a leadership development […]

I recently read a blog post by Irving Wladawsky-Berger titled “The Growing Value of Social Skills.” Here’s the opening paragraph. “I recently read a very interesting paper, The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market, by Harvard professor David Deming. Deming’s paper shows that over the past several decades, labor markets have been […]