Talent
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Why Can’t We Implement Succession?
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I can’t quite remember when it was, but on a recent Bill Kutik Radio Show, Bill mentioned, “One of the things that drives me crazy, is every survey that…
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Talent Particles in Action
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Until tonight, I’ve never seen a lightning storm from above the clouds. I’m not sure what percentage of lightning strikes actually are visible below the clouds, but this storm…
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Next Gen Workforce Planning
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We’ve been doing a pretty good job with Talent Management in my opinion. We have pretty much deployed our systems or are in the midst of doing so. We…
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Corporate Strategy & Talent Management
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A long (very long) time ago, I used to captain a cycling team. I had a crew of about 6 people that raced every week, and we all had…
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Leadership: The Elusive Skill
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In cycling, there is the concept of a pace line. Just as in auto racing (if you’re a NASCAR person) if you inches are behind another cyclist, you’ll save…
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What’s Next?
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Just a few short years ago, it really seemed like the vendor space was leading the market with all sorts of great new functionality and new ways to think…
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The Future of Learning
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Those of you who read this blog often know that I’m a cyclist and generally a fitness kind of guy. I’m actually fairly obsessive, and on a recent day…
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Immediacy without Details
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I’ll have to be honest – I’m having a really hard time with some of the new technology. I’m supposed to be a technologist and be up on all…
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Gaming: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste
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I’ve been writing a lot about gaming and being an advocate for the learning activities that it promotes. In many cases and for many games, there is active online…
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What does Irony Taste Like?
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My wife and I were recently at dinner with her sister’s family. One of the boys is about 14 years old, and as we were waiting for our table,…
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Using RSS Feeds in Recruiting
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I have a friend who has his own consulting business was describing some pretty cool RSS functionality he’s been using. One of his customers has an order system that…
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Training Innovation
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I’ve been thinking a lot about whether you can teach people how to be innovators. As North America and EMEA slowly loses production and manufacturing work to countries like…
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Taleo versus SuccessFactors
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At the end of 2009, Bersin did a great analysis of the two organizations that I can’t really beat. It’s a nice objective and score by score view of…
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HR Leadership Selection
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I’ve been talking lately about how individual contributors are not always the best leaders. Here, Jeff Hunter talks about why sometimes the individual contributor can become a great executive,…
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Great Individual Contributors <> Great Leaders
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I hate taking things from the sports world because other than the occasional job, riding my bike more than I should and watching the Boston Celtics in the post-season,…
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Defining Mobility
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Talent is actually pretty tricky. We seem not only to have problems defining talent and talent application components, but we seem to not know what some of those components…