November 8, 2011 by Wally Bock
Talent is not enough. That’s my big take-away from the Aon Hewitt study, “Top Companies for Leaders.” The last version of this particular survey (not to be confused with the Hay Group’s “Best Companies for Leadership“) was published two years ago. If you were thinking that you could just, magically, find the most talented people […]
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November 6, 2011 by Ken Nowack
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. In the latest APA Stress in America survey, 69% of employees are satisfied with their employer […]
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November 2, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Emailaholics Anonymous Competency: managing self, self-development, time management, technological leadership Who benefits: any email user, IT types Consultant Usage: self-development, time management consultants What’s it about? John Freeman has written a 2011 book with the fantastic title of The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox. First […]
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November 1, 2011 by Wally Bock
“Tracking the talent, finding the leaders” is an interview with Robert P. Gandossy, who’s described as “the founder of the annual Top Companies For Leaders’ study.” If talent development is part of your portfolio, you’ll want to read the article for a hodgepodge of observations on leadership development. One part of the piece really caught […]
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October 30, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“On Career Day in high school, you don’t walk around looking for the cartoon guy.” Gary Larson Too often in my executive coaching I run across a senior leader who will confess to me that they aren’t sure why they ever went into management. I’m always curious to ask what they would love to do […]
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October 26, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Customer Service Recommendations Competencies: customer service, sales Who benefits: all level of employees in sales and customer service positions Consultant Usage: recommended for sales and customer service management consultants; highly recommended for sales and customer service trainers What’s it about? Today I would like to review two books in […]
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October 23, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!†George Carlin Most vendors use average scores of raters in their summary reports for 360-degree feedback assessments. For example it’s not uncommon for vendors to show a table summarizing the “most frequent†and “least frequent†behaviors perceived by […]
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October 12, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Ask Yourself These Questions Competencies: leadership, managing self, self-development Who benefits: leaders, managers, supervisors, and leader wannabes Consultant Usage: must read for executive coaches and leadership trainers What’s it about? When I first started posting these Wednesday missives had a certain randomness. I was trying to cover a wide […]
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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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October 9, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Steve Jobs I remember the very first personal computer I purchased in the early 1980s with a buddy of mine at an IBM retail store in Beverly Hills, CA. It was an IBM XT PC with an internal 10MB […]
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