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 C’s [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Frightening Thoughts
Competencies: financial leadership, ethics
Who benefits: leaders at any level; financial managers
Consultant Usage: background material for those working in the financial industries
What’s it about? First of all, I can’t believe I am writing two weeks in a row about Financial Stuff. I mean I hate balancing my checking account.
But this [...]
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 price [...]
“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it”
Charles Kettering
A growing research literature suggests that emotional intelligence (EI) may play an important role in career success and job performance above that of personality and cognitive ability (incremental ability). For example, a meta-analysis of 69 independent studies [...]
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 [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Financial Intelligence
Competencies: self-development, financial leadership, entrepreneurial leadership
Who benefits: career oriented employees, supervisors and managers, all executives; HR professionals, IT professionals, entrepreneurs
Consultant Usage: important background information for organizational consultants, executive coaches
What’s it about? This site supports financial leadership and entrepreneurial leadership as organizational competencies. Unfortunately we only occasionally provide insight into [...]
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, logical, [...]
We’re pleased to announce Wally Bock as the latest addition to the Results vs. Activities regular contributors!
Since leaving the Marines in 1968, Wally has been a manager, leader, trainer, writer and entrepreneur. He now spends his time sharing the best of what he’s learned about leadership via coaching, writing books, Tweeting and blogging.
Our mission with [...]
“Don’t Confuse Facts with Reality.”
Robert Ballard
1. According to a survey conducted at the 2009 World Economic Forum, 12% of the respondents said an inadequately trained workforce was a barrier in doing business in the U.S. This figure was 9.9 in the UK, 6.2 in China and 4.8 in India.
2. A survey of 785 senior leaders [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about getting a headhunter’s attention, getting notices, [...]