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 [...]

“I would tell you to go to Hell but I work there and I don’t want to see you every day.”

The above quote is apparently available as a fridge magnet in the USA …. no comment required!

Writing in the FT recently Lynda Gratton asked readers if they could feel the wind of change heading for [...]

The prominence of demographic change and skill shortages has recently been overtaken by the financial crisis of the past two or so years. With unemployment at record highs during that period, it would be easy to assume we no longer have a skills shortage problem. However, skills shortages still exist in many industries, and the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 – 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 [...]

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 [...]

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:  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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This weeks post is a tour de force on leadership between Marc and I! Not surprisingly corporate leaders tend to accentuate “the good”, whereas more often you will hear the “the bad and the ugly” from employees, customers, partners  and the general public or non corporate world. In a fast changing and often turbulent [...]

Coaching is a crucial management skill. Unfortunately, there are still many misconceptions about the subject. Here’s a list of 30 tips from Jeroen De Flander and Sir John Whitmore. The  post has been reproduced by kind permission of Jeroen De Flander, author Strategy Execution Heroes. Jeroen will respond to comments on this post.

Ask open questions. [...]

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: [...]

HRN Europe recently polled the Top 10 Strategy Failures in Corporate Europe based on intel from a select number of global HR, OD and Leadership surveys which focused on the main reasons why strategies fail. We benchmarked against a total of “23 key reasons” offering 5 indicators ranging in frequency.

Strategy execution took the No. 1 [...]