July 9, 2011 by Ken Nowack
By Kyle Lagunas, HR Market Analyst, Software Advice UCLA Anderson School of Management Professor Samuel Culbert argues in his article, Get Rid of the Performance Review, that reviews are “little more than a dysfunctional pretense.â€Â What Culbert fails to distinguish, however, is that some reviews are better executed than others. Performance reviews are not innately […]
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July 6, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: UCLA Gets It Right Competency: leadership, customer service Who benefits: anyone in a leadership position or is preparing for one Consultant Usage: organizational development consultants, trainers of leadership or customer service What’s it about? You would have to be pretty sick not to know what difficulties the medical profession […]
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June 24, 2011 by Yosh Beier
With all the hopes and promises of open innovation, team-based creativity, and peer-driven collaboration, effective ways to increase collective intelligence are hotly debated. One repeatedly replicated finding is that IQs of individual members don’t correlate with a group’s collective intelligence – measured by its ability to solve complex problems and to make effective decisions. In […]
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June 22, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Accountability, The Key to Performance and Productivity Competencies: accountability, leadership, managing self, ethics, Who benefits: executives and senior managers primarily, any employee secondarily Consultant Usage: especially useful for external consultants working at the organizational level, useful for internal HRD consultants What’s it about? Two of my favorite guys are […]
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June 21, 2011 by Wally Bock
I love reviewing the predictions that people made a hundred years ago about how things would be today. Take cities. They’re filled with private planes and sky taxies, and sometimes, dirigibles moored to towers atop giant skyscrapers in the predictions. And there’s almost always one thing missing, something we take for granted today: elevators. Skyscrapers […]
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June 19, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.†Yogi Berra My 85/10/5 Rule of Coaching Most of my executive coaching engagements have been largely unsuccessful in terms of positive “outcomes.â€Â My coaching track record is easy to measure and I refer to it as the “85/10/5†rule. It is important […]
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June 15, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: The Ethical Mind Competency: self-development, managing self, leadership skills Who benefits: everyone Consultant Usage: any consultant worth his or her salt should read this and the related references to be of full value to self and clients What’s it about? Do you have 10 minutes to invest in your […]
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June 12, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job.” Slappy White The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests reports unemployment currently around 10 percent. According to a survey by Mental Health America, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Depression is Real Coalition, workers in the […]
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June 8, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong Competency: self-development, decision-making, judgment Who benefits: potentially all of us Consultant Usage: good background material for coaches and executive coaches What’s it about? Astute, intelligent readers will note that only four posts ago I wrote “Failure Is An Option.â€Â I […]
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June 7, 2011 by Wally Bock
Last week, Patrick Lefler made the following provocative comment about training on his Intrepid Ideas blog. “Unlike other organizations, the Marines pull their top performers from the front lines to serve as instructors. That’s right; the Marines actually pull their top performers—both officers and enlisted—from the front lines and use them as trainers, sometimes for […]
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