March 27, 2012 by Wally Bock
The New York Times recently ran an article by Natasha Singer titled “Helping Managers Find, and Fix, Their Flaws.” Here’s the lead. “MANY management coaches teach executives specific skills toward becoming better mentors, delegators or supervisors. Not the minds at Minds at Work, in Cambridge, Mass. The company, founded by Robert Kegan, a professor at [...]
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March 22, 2012 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 job boards in the hiring process, the importance of a college degree as a job requirement, global trends in talent management, and War for Talent, the sequel. From TLNT: New [...]
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March 20, 2012 by Wally Bock
I was reading Mike Hoban’s excellent post “Lessons from the Zappos Culture Playbook” when I started thinking about Doreen. Mike wrote about the Zappos culture and then compares it with the culture at Apple. Here’s the line that set off my train of thought. “I’m currently reading Isaacson’s superb biography of Steve Jobs and it [...]
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March 15, 2012 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 on CEO succession, “big talent,” men and women stars and how they’re treated differently, talent management for an aging workforce, and how to keep talent from walking out the door. From [...]
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March 13, 2012 by Wally Bock
Last week, Meredith Soleau, wrote a provocative post on Fistful of Talent with the title, “What CEOs Hate About HR People.” Here’s how she set the stage for the piece. “So here I am, on assignment from the Boss Man, writing about what CEOs hate about HR people. I’ve interviewed five CEOs. Their companies range [...]
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March 8, 2012 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 and retention, mentoring for future leaders, and HR analytics. From Dana Theus: Want to Attract Talent? Be Talent! “Why? People like to work with and for people they like [...]
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March 6, 2012 by Wally Bock
Inc. magazine’s headline was “How to Fight Employee Turnover.” The article started this way. “Over the past year, Big Fuel has seen its revenue more than triple, to $40 million, and its head count swell, from 70 employees to 140. But with growth comes growing pains. Like many start-ups, the New York City-based social-media marketing [...]
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March 1, 2012 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 three posts that should help you improve your recruiting and an insightful post about “managing generations.” From Melany Gallant: 5 Reasons IKEA’s Australian Recruitment Campaign is Brilliant “What’s the secret behind IKEA’s [...]
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February 28, 2012 by Wally Bock
The article under HR Morning’s tantalizing headline, “Cha-ching! Biz plans to spend $125K on loyal employees,” definitely got me to read the story. Here’s the opening. “This year, The Marketing Arm, a Dallas-based marketing and promotions agency, is starting a unique sabbatical program that it estimates will cost between $125,000 and $200,000 in 2012 alone.” [...]
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February 23, 2012 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 the impact of benefits on talent management, the “War for Talent” in the midst of high unemployment, what’s next in talent management systems, and the importance of talent spotters. From Steve [...]
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February 21, 2012 by Wally Bock
Yesterday was the Fiftieth Anniversary of John Glenn’s 1962 orbital flight. Glenn was one of seven original astronauts recruited by NASA starting in 1959. It is one of the great recruiting stories of all time. The work was dangerous. In the years leading up to the recruiting process, US rockets had shown a dismaying tendency [...]
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February 16, 2012 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 on the role of senior executives in talent selection, competing with the world’s Googles for top talent, improving HR processes and the Jeremy Lin phenomenon. From Mike Haberman: Senior Executives, Not [...]
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February 14, 2012 by Wally Bock
“Tactics for Talent Troubles” is the title that Chief Executive gave to an interview with Joe Herring. He’s the CEO of Covance, a $2.8 billion contract research organization. Here’s the money quote. “Ultimately, Herring credits the program with not only reducing turnover to a much healthier range of between 7 and 10 percent but also [...]
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February 9, 2012 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 retaining top performers, what it’s like to work for a “best place to work,” when learning is the job, and how GE goes about talent development. From Katie Morrell via [...]
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February 7, 2012 by Wally Bock
John Byrne, writing in Fortune, tells us that “Northwestern Kellogg to shrink two-year MBA program.” What that really means is that Kellogg is to shrink the size of classes in its two-year MBA program and “double or triple the enrollment” in the one-year program for students who have an undergraduate degree in business. Not only [...]