April 19, 2011 by Wally Bock
“Fueling Business Growth Tops CEO Agendas around the World” is the headline announcing the Conference Board’s latest CEO Challenge report. Growth has never entirely been off the CEO radar even during the financial crisis, but now it’s firmly at the top with “talent,” “cost optimization,” and “innovation” in a virtual tie for second place. The […]
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April 17, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. “ Jim Rohn OK, in the interest of full disclosure I’ve had enough to eat since the beginning of the year to go into hibernation. So I’m entitled a bit to comment on the growing issue of the cost to organizations of leaders and employees […]
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April 15, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quotes of the Week: “The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.â€Â Will Rogers; “The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.â€Â Albert Einstein Humor Break: “On my income […]
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April 14, 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, measuring training ROI, linking employee pay to performance, and what to worry about. From Morgan Hoogvelt at TLNT: Onboarding 101, or What NOT to Do When a New Employee […]
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April 13, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Reader Responses Competencies: managing self, self-development Who benefits: all of us Consultant Usage: not so much this week What’s it about? Last week I did a review of a post on a Blog created by Tony Schwartz. As a recap, I used this quote from his post: “Do you […]
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April 12, 2011 by Wally Bock
This last week, I’ve been poring over a Deloitte working paper titled “Leadership by Design.” You can read a description on the Deloitte site and then download the paper, or jump right to the download. They say that the paper is intended to address fundamental questions about “how we approach leadership in organizations.” Here are […]
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April 10, 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. Research from George Washington University suggests that the annual cost of being obese is $4,879.00 for […]
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April 8, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quote of the Week: “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” Stephen Covey Humor Break: “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds (women) and fast cars. The […]
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April 7, 2011 by Yosh Beier
As recently reported by the New York Times, Google unleashed its analytical power in-house as a part of Google’s management effectiveness project. Putting its data mining experts to work, Google dug through thousands of performance reviews and other forms of data evaluating managers’ effectiveness in its “quest to build a better bossâ€. (NY Times, Mar-12-2011) […]
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April 7, 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 recruiting in the new world of social media, the problem with key employees, learning and working effectively in today’s complex world, and what to do if you’re not one of […]
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