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Recently on holiday, over a well earned beer (we spent most of the first two days of our holiday abroad with my wife and son in the hospital - my wife broke her leg), I picked up the remote and switched on the TV for the first time in a long time.
Undercover Boss: Joseph M. ...
Europeans Best at Fictitous Sick Leave
Europe, 1 billion man hours lost to fictitious sick leave each year.
Across Europe, more than 120 million sick days a year are actually taken for personal reasons rather than for an illness according to Aon Consulting, the employee risk and benefits management firm.
15% of the 7,500 European workers surveyed in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, ...
Apple, Pixar, Culture and Decision Science
Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull - a backstage look at the mechanics of culture, decision making and innovation in Apple and Pixar.
Steve Jobs' description of Apple's culture as that of a startup gives an important insight into the company's ongoing success. At the recent All Things D conference, Steve Jobs described Apple's (AAPL) culture as "that ...
Highest Unemployment
The 15 Highest Unemployment Rates in the World by MarketWatch, DailyFinance, Yahoo! Finance, and TheStreet.com. (Europe not listed as a nation)
The global unemployment problem is so huge that the total number of jobless in the ten most populous nations in the world totals 1.1 billion. That is only slightly smaller than the population of China.
Macedonia's ...
Nokia Innovation = CEO Succession?
Transatlantic from Bloomberg BusinessWeek to Sky News reportedly Nokia is looking to replace its chief executive as it struggles to compete in the smartphone market against the likes of Apple and Google. Interesting cover near on three years ago from Forbes back in 2007 on 1 billion customers can anyone catch the cellphone king? around ...
FT Stefan Stern on Talent
HRN are long time fans of award winning business reporter and researcher Stefan Stern of the FT. Stefan leaves the Financial Times in August for a leadership post as Global Head of Strategy at PR giant Edelman. We are delighted to have Stefan both Chair and input his expert opinion at this year’s talent ...
L’Oreal revealed …
The headlines in France are awash with the latest revelations in “ L’affaire Bettencourt”. In today’s newpapers the ramifications went straight to the top and the heart of the French political system - Nicholas Sarkozy. Swift denials have been issued and no doubt investigations will put an end to such suggestions. However for ...
Social Sticky HR Transformation
HR professionals have been fast adopters of social media, why for example HR and OD professionals on LinkedIn represent the largest group alongside sales & marketing and ICT professionals. HR are not just using Social Media for networking but for improving their value as a profession. Clearly in many cases, many identify social media channels as ...
Next Generation Talent – HRN World Talent Forum
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Next Generation Talent - World Talent Forum
Date: 4-5 November 2010
Location: London, United Kingdom
Everything we know about work – where we work, how we work, who we work with, the technologies we use – is changing and those changes will continue to accelerate.
Shift Happens! We ...
TRANSFORM 2010 – European HR Transformation Summit
TRANSFORM 2010 – The European HR Transformation Summit
Dates: 10-11 October 2010
Location: London, United Kingdom
Please visit [Event Website]
Introduction
In the business world today organizations have to learn to expect the unexpected. It can be many things ‐ game changing technology, innovation, economic crisis, terrorism, natural catastrophe, or even legislative change. Business needs to be agile, flexible, and ...
Culture, Principles & People @ Bridgewater
The FT’s management columnist, Lucy Kellaway, is always well worth following for a down to earth, sharp and often wryly amusing approach to management. Her most recent column “Principles for living that we could all do without” takes a highly critical look at the set of Principles that the CEO of Bridgewater ...
Greece – Engagement impossible?
The prophet Cassandra warned the city of Troy to beware of Greeks bearing gifts, but Cassandra was cursed to foretell the future yet never be believed. The city’s citizens took in the famous wooden horse, and the rest as they say is history. Over the past few weeks many leaders in Europe ...
The Why of Work.
For many people “work” still remains a necessary evil - it’s too often a case of doing something that has to be done, like it or not, to survive in the modern world. The dark satanic mills evoked by William Blake in Jerusalem may have almost disappeared in the developed economies, and employers constantly ...
Retooling HR
Retooling HR: How Proven Business Models Offer Untapped Potential for Strategic Talent Management
By John W. Boudreau
This weeks exclusive post has been kindly produced by John W. Boudreau from the Centre for Effective Organisations at the Marshall School of Business in California. © John W Boudreau.
Why do HR leaders and their constituents work so hard, accomplish so ...
HR – Heaven v’s Hell
A Human Resources Manager was run over, tragically, by a bus and was killed. Her soul arrived at the Pearly Gates, where St. Peter welcomed her. "Before you get settled in" he said, "We have a little problem...you see, we've never had a Human Resources Manager make it this far before and we're not really sure ...
Wired to Network & Learn – SuperPerformance
I have been fortunate enough to read “really interesting information” about the world of work over the past 12 months - perhaps some of the best information available to net users. Thanks largely in part to three of the 8 or so social networks for which I am a member. Isn’t it great how linkedIn, facebook, and ...
HR 2010 Social Media Stats
Here is some interesting data which suggests HR Pro's are very positive about social media for staying current, networking and openly sharing to 'help' increase learning, connections and expertise.
In essence HR professionals spend more time NETWORKING with peers than on editorial content.
...... also interesting post from Guy Kawasaki as I noticed many in my network ...
The best companies for leadership?
Early last week INSEAD Knowledge sent me one of their newsletter updates. Given Marc’s earlier post on the worst for leadership I thought it might be interesting to look at what the people over at INSEAD think is the best of leadership.
Here is the link to their list of the 200 top performing CEO’s ...
Worst Companies for Leadership!
Does your company qualify as a most or least admired company?
If your company is 'least admired' does that mean your business is - will perform poorly?
An interesting take on "top companies for leadership” from our friends at The RBL Group – this time Norm Smallwood digs a little deeper to offer better perspective on why he believes leadership development in ...
Star Attraction … have you got it?
Competing for the attention of the talented is a something of a challenge these days, and in the online soundbite world you need to grab attention fast; first impressions count. Beyond first impressions, attracting people today, particularly those young talented high potentials we read so much about, companies are having to contend ...