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10/13/11: Top Talent Development Posts this Week

October 13, 2011 by Wally Bock

Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on the Mercer study on employee commitment, talent management software, investing in your people, creating a good leadership training program, and choosing leaders at random. From TLNT: Survey: Employees Are Unhappy, […]




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Leadership Development without the Straight Lines

October 11, 2011 by Wally Bock

You won’t find a straight line in nature. In fact, the only place you find straight lines is in artificial things, like books and theories on leadership development. We’ve got to change that. Check the leadership development program at your place. Does it assume that people decide on a straight-line career ladder and then climb […]




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10/6/11: Top Talent Development Posts this Week

October 6, 2011 by Wally Bock

Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on talent management and innovation, an example of a high performing talent management program, promoting CEOs from within, when to fire the head of HR, and how to keep the talent […]




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Historical Lessons in Founder Succession

October 4, 2011 by Wally Bock

Founders, especially charismatic or dominating ones, are the stuff of folklore in American business. Sometimes they live on in their company’s name, as in “Dell” or “Boeing” and they always live in the stories we tell about them. Steve Jobs is the most recent example of the breed, which is why there have been so […]




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9/29/11: Top Talent Development Posts this Week

September 29, 2011 by Wally Bock

Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about HR metrics, succession planning, leadership development, and gender and competition. From ERC: 7 Ways to Use HR Metrics “Using HR metrics and data can be a useful strategy to uncover […]




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A Definition of Succession Insanity

September 27, 2011 by Wally Bock

I’ve heard it attributed to a host of sources from Albert Einstein and Tony Robbins to “ancient Chinese proverb,” and it rings true every time: “Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is a definition of insanity.” For a living example of insanity applied to succession planning, look no farther […]




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9/22/11: Top Talent Development Posts this Week

September 22, 2011 by Wally Bock

Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about leadership training for high potentials, using personality tests, the agile model for learning and HR, why managers may not promote the best people, and why your top people are prime […]




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The Future of Leadership

September 20, 2011 by Wally Bock

The Hay Group has just released a provocative new whitepaper titled “Leadership 2030” which, they promise will give us insight into “what successful leaders will look like twenty years from now—the skills they’ll require, the nature of the organizations and employees they’ll oversee, the trends and issues they’ll be forced to confront” They make good […]




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9/15/11: Top Talent Development Posts this Week

September 15, 2011 by Wally Bock

Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about onboarding, hiring, informal learning, and using action learning at the core of your talent management program. From Dan McCarthy: New Leader Onboarding: Stakeholder Interviews “An effective new leader onboarding process […]




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Learning for Competitive Advantage in the Knowledge Economy

September 13, 2011 by Wally Bock

I love to learn, but I hated school. I hated facing in the same direction as all the other boys and girls. I hated the reality that a lot of the time the class went only as fast as the slightly-below-average learner, when I wanted to forge ahead briskly. And, truth be told, there were […]




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