Boston’s Fenway Park seats an average of 37,000 people. Sell Fenway Park out twice and that’s roughly the number of employees at Cisco Systems. Imagine, … Read more
Why We Help Our Best Talent to Leave
A recent WSJ article by Dartmouth Professor Sydney Finkelstein articulated a provocative management idea: The best leaders allow and even encourage their … Read more
Instead of Backfilling Jobs, Do These 3 Things
One of the most difficult tasks of a leader is to maintain a team of A players. Steve Jobs once famously said, “A players hire A players and B players hire … Read more
How To Build A Strategically Valuable Talent Pipeline
When we hire, we are bent on finding talent with performance that soars, an attitude of learning and an interest in the long haul. All those variables are … Read more
How One Company Makes Lateral Moves A Win-Win
It is no surprise that job-hopping has become the new normal for millennials. A recent Gallup poll found that 21% of millennials report changing jobs … Read more
Why We Need to Invest in Succession Planning for HR
Let’s face it: HR is a service department. We serve people at all levels through everything we do. We are the ones who partner with business leaders … Read more
3 Essentials to Igniting the Leadership Flame
Working in HR is anticipating, fighting and preventing fires. I’m going to go out on a limb here to say there should be a bit more fire starting. There’s … Read more
How To Become A Superboss In 4 Steps
Some leaders don’t just build successful organizations; they also attract, train and cultivate the next generation of exceptional leaders. … Read more
A Simple Way For HR to Plan for the Retirement Tsunami
A popular topic is the possible tsunami of retirements which could leave our organizations desperately short of talent. It’s a delicious topic because … Read more
Are You Wasting Your Talent?
Chazz Palminteri wrote the wonderful screenplay, a favorite of mine, A Bronx Tale. The film is set in the 1960s and chronicles several life events of a … Read more