May 4, 2010 by Wally Bock
During the Dot-Com Bubble, Warren Buffett was chided for not investing in any of the hot new companies. He said he knew there were lots of great values among the new start-ups. He just didn’t know how to predict who the winners might be. That’s the problem with high potential programs. When you hire a […]
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April 29, 2010 by Wally Bock
Every week, I’ll be reviewing blogs that cover talent development to find you the pick of the lot for the week. In this post, you’ll find pointers to pieces about engagement, onboarding, the newcomer advantage, flexible work (and life), and performance reviews. From TomorrowToday: Employee Engagement Report 2010 “Towers Watson is a global professional services […]
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April 27, 2010 by Wally Bock
You’ve heard the classic oxymorons. There’s “military music.” There’s “postal service.” And let’s not forget “jumbo shrimp.” Add “talent management” to that list. If it’s talent, you can’t manage it. And if you’re managing it, it’s not talent. Received management wisdom, attributed to gurus from W. Edwards Deming and Peter Drucker, through Robert Kaplan is […]
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April 22, 2010 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find you the pick of the lot. In this post, you’ll find pointers to pieces about what today’s workforce must have, five common mistakes with top talent, new hires, learning on the job, and top online influencers in talent management. From Talent Management: The Four […]
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April 20, 2010 by Wally Bock
The cover story in the current Business Week asks a stunning question: “Can GE Still Manage?” There have been many stories over the last few years about today’s GE not performing like the GE of old, or at least the GE of Welch. What makes this story stunning is that it doesn’t focus on stock […]
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April 15, 2010 by Wally Bock
Every week, I’ll be reviewing blogs that cover talent development to find you the pick of the lot for the week. In this post, you’ll find pointers to pieces about hoarding talent, pay-for-performance and ratingless performance systems, talent development coming out of the recession, ways to waste money on people practices, and how top companies […]
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April 13, 2010 by Wally Bock
You may be a super-smart consultant. You probably topped your classes in high school and college. It’s likely that you zipped through graduate school. . That would make you exactly like the consultants that David Maister described in a recent interview. He called them: “highly intelligent people who value and celebrate that which is rational, […]
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