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Organizations that have comprehensive talent management strategies benefit from exciting work environments, higher performing, innovative employees, and top-tier financial success. So, halfway through the year, how are your talent management strategies working out? Are they accelerating the profitable growth of…
Read More It’s Mid-Year. Are Your Talent Management Strategies Leading to Improved Business Results?
Buried in the news of robust U.S. job growth in June (287,000 jobs added) is that pay has risen at the fastest annual rate since 2009 (2.6%). Also, the labor market has tightened. The shoe has shifted to the other…
Read More Employers Need to Brace For a Tight Labor Force and Higher Wages!
I recently had the opportunity to mix with dozens of 3Mers at The Conference Board’s 4th Annual Master Class on Innovation, held at the 3M Innovation Center in Maplewood, MN. 3M has a long, glorious history of innovation and is…
Read More Old Fashion Collaboration Still Powers Innovation at 3M!
Innovation continues to be a hot topic with CEOs. According to Mike Maddox, founder and CEO of Maddock Douglas, 84 percent of CEOs believe they need to improve innovation within their companies. We have found that creating an organizational culture…
Lately, I have received many questions regarding whether hiring for “cultural fit” works. Or, is hiring for “fit” the lazy way to hire? Even worse, does it lead to discrimination in hiring decisions? Hiring for “cultural fit” began in the…
What’s the worst kept secret in talent management? It’s the fact that annual performance evaluations with ratings are subjective, demotivating, destroy collaboration and innovation, and are time consuming. Ultimately, they do little to motivate, align and improve the performance and…
In a world of constant change, technology breakthroughs, and globalization, company strategies need constant redefinition. This is the advice of Vijay Govindarajan, known as “VG” and the author of The Three Box Solution, speaking to the audience of the Front…
Read More Strategy is Leadership! Strategy is Innovation! The advice of 10 experts on innovation.
If you listen to some of the pundits or review the marketing materials of technology platforms that offer instant on-line learning, you could come to the conclusion that there is no need for organizational learning. I couldn’t disagree more. In…
Read More Incomplete science has shrunk learning organizations. Time for a comeback.
The term “open innovation” was coined by University of California, Berkeley, professor Henry Chesbrough when he authored a book with the same title. According to Professor Chesbrough, “Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to…
Or is it nearly impossible? Instead, should you just focus on fixing your business, and the rest will follow? These are the questions raised by a recent Harvard Business Review article by Harvard Professor Louis E. Kirstein and research associate…
