I recently talked to an organization who is moving their organization from one end of the city to the opposite far end of the same area. The commuting time between the cities is about 40 minutes, and some employees would benefit and have reduced commute, others would certainly pick up longer train or car rides. I asked about turnover rates and received an...

– How do you measure talent? – How do you determine who to develop? – How does that impact who gets developed and who gets money spent on them? We’ve talked about soccer moms and helicopter parenting on this blog. But we’ve never talked about how some of those kids participate in selection activities within their sports, music programs and...

I’ve been watching “Top Chef Masters” on Bravo TV.  It takes some very well known chefs in the U.S. culinary scene and pits them against each other in a set of challenges.  This week’s challenge (I am writing this on August 18) takes the last 4 chefs and pairs them with 3 souse chefs each.  As I watched this show, what became evident was that this was...

Here is what the NY Times had to say about AIG executives and bonuses a few weeks ago: Now we can debate why A.I.G. felt it necessary to guarantee seven executives at least $3 million apiece when the economy was clearly on shaky ground. Perhaps we will find out these contracts were a bit of sleight of hand to enrich executives who knew this financial Titanic had...

In the recent explosive growth of talent management, performance and recruiting always seemed to be the drivers, but compensation administration and succession planning always seemed close behind.  I’ve always thought that recruiting and performance would level off as most organizations purchased and implemented modules and moved onto comp and succession. ...

A while back I observed some talent software from a leading talent management vendor.  They were excited to show me their innovations around presenting a “seating chart” that would allow the user to visually see where employees were located within the organization.  Obviously, the software also allowed drill through on each employee to provide some core...