Good talent is worth fighting for. At senior levels of an organization, the ability to adapt, to make decisions quickly in situations of high uncertainty, and to steer through wrenching change is critical. But at a time when the need for better talent is increasing, big companies continue to find it difficult to attract and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Go to the people

Live among the people

Learn from them

Love them.

Start with what they know,

Build on what they have.

But of the best leaders,

When their task is accomplished,

Their work is done,

The people will remark,

“We have done it ourselves.”

Chinese Poem

My family recently moved home again and I found this poem in one of my old work diary’s - it had been tucked [...]

Or aquisition? Thanks to better human resource management practices over the last few years, HR will merge/marry with other functions such as marketing and communications. Social media and emerging web technologies in general are used for recruiting (finding prospective employees), marketing (creating business opportunities), building relationships (getting connected with the community) and in general feeding relevant [...]

The media reported last Monday that the “UK is officially out of recession”, business sentiment and a reality check by the end of the week on Friday suggested that leaders now fear a W-shaped recovery. Over the weekend some better news from Austria, where the manufacturing output expanded at fastest pace since March 2008 (Key Points: [...]

In our research it is HR people whom offer up some of the most critical and negative feedback about the function. Many of the HR people I know well, are tired of being asked the same question, usually by HR and about HR.

The business landscape has changed. Downsizing, globalization, and social media, along with a [...]

Marc’s previous post discussing “the very fat and lazy” put me in mind of the HR Director at BKV, Eleonóra Szilágyi Szalainé. I have met many HR Directors over the past several years; and I don’t recall this one as being either exceptional or typical, but it appears that she did develop a uniquely personal [...]

My first weblog! I have enjoyed the gift of the gab before I ever kissed the Blarney stone, so hopefully I can put it to good use on this blog! As for Mr Russell, he is still unpacking and I hope enjoying his new surroundings somewhere deep in the French countryside – looking forward to [...]