Unlocking Leaders’ Potential
CareSource, one of the largest public sector managed care companies in the United States partners with ICF (International Coaching Federation) to deliver Leadership Transition...
Getting a Job In 2025
By Lynda Gratton
Lynda Gratton’s new research identifies the careers and skills likely to be valued in the next decade.
Even with my own three decades...
The Global Talent Management Challenge
By David G. Collings
David G. Collings outlines key factors which can effectively develop global talent management systems to drive sustainable performance based on his...
Powerful Leadership Wins Employees Hearts + Minds…Gains Customers
This article explores how to use effective leadership strategies to win hearts and minds of employees to improve the bottom line. It draws attention...
Extrapreneurs: A More Sensible Form of Entrepreneurship?
By Maurits van Rooijen
Being an entrepreneur is exciting with greater control over one’s destiny and a more direct link between work and rewards. But...
Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence
By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur
Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their...
Build High-Quality Connections
By Jane E. Dutton
Jane E. Dutton explains why high-quality connections (HQCs) are critical building blocks for bringing out the best in people and...
Needs-Based Coaching: Employee Motivation in a New Light
By Craig Perrin
Behind every unmotivated employee is a leadership problem to be solved. Yet many leaders see motivation as a game of rewards and...
The Five Fundamentals of Effective Performance Management
By David G. Collings and John McMackin
In this article the authors present the five issues that any organisation must tackle in order to design...
Are You – And Your Company – Prepared For The Future Of Work In...
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This article describes 10 key dimensions that...
GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?
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As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...
Strategic Transformation at Tennis Canada
By Roger Martin
Aside from the small percentage of hugely successful game-changing start-ups like Apple, Microsoft and Google it can be hard for a small...
Talent Management 2.0: Transformation Powered By People
By Amber Román and Richard Lynch
In “Moving Beyond the Anecdotal: What Will It Take To Create Your Digital 2.0 Business Model,” we discussed our...
Leadership and the Structure of Trust
By Paul R. Lawrence and Robert Porter Lynch
Trust enables everything to move faster more effortlessly,and with less conflict.
In the business world, executives soon...
The Daily Practice of Leadership Communication During Times of Change
By Terry Pearce
In this article Terry Pearce, the author of LEADING OUT LOUD A Guide For Engaging Others In Creating The Future, places authenticity...
Creating Abundant Organizations
Interview with Dave and Wendy Ulrich
In “The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations” (McGraw-Hill 2010), Dave and Wendy Ulrich set out...
Managing Difficult Personalities
By Zahir Irani and Amir Sharif
Taking a lead in handling difficult situations and difficult people can be the hardest part of any management role....
The TRUST Principles: How to Embrace the New World of Work
By Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson
The transformation of work in the digital, global era is gathering pace, with demonstrable benefits for business, people and...
Building Change Capacity in your Organization: Ensuring that you have the talent and bench...
By Charles H. Bishop, Jr.
Introduction
Business has experienced an evolution from the agricultural age to the Industrial Revolution to the information age. Now, the talent...
Identity In and Around Organisations
By Majken Schultz & Steve Maguire
At the heart of any successful organisation lies a powerful conception of identity: the coherent way in which it...
The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness
By Sean Culey
Sean Culey, member of the European Leadership Team of the Supply Chain Council and CEO of business improvement consultancy SEVEN Collaborative Solutions,...
Transforming Employee Performance One Coaching Conversation at a Time
By Brian Souza
Why is it that so many good people are such bad managers? It’s an interesting question, isn’t it? Often when I give...
5 Myths about Employee Learning
Here are some common misperceptions about corporate education— and how to get beyond them.
Under what circumstances do organizations embrace a learning culture?
Often, it’s when...
Why Robots May Not Be Taking Your Job – at least, not in...
How Organisations Can Embrace Automation
By Leslie Willcocks
In this article Professor Willcocks discusses the reality of robots, what they mean for ‘human’ jobs and how...
Talenting: Framework and Metaphors for a New Processual Approach to Talent Management
By Simon L. Dolan & Paulo Hayashi Jr.
Although the necessity for attracting, retaining, and motivating talent is an old challenge for all competitive organisations,...
Organisational Vitality: The Life Line for Your Company
By David De Cremer
Where do you see your company many many many years from now? In this article, David De Cremer tells us the...
Embedded Values and Induced Spirituality in Management Education
The Case of Two Successful Business Schools in Barcelona
By S. L. Dolan, Y. Altman, B. Capell and M. Raich
The Missing Puzzle Piece? How Action Learning Can Help Solve the Dual Challenge of...
By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan
To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...
Feeling and Affect in the Contemporary Workplace
Rick Iedema & David Grant
Ongoing organisational change and rapid product and service turnover are demanding increasing levels of employee commitment to innovating work...
Inner Work Life: The Engine of Performance
By Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
Workers around the world are becoming increasingly disengaged from their jobs. AON Hewitt found a global drop of four...
Keys to Manage Human Resources – Rules of Thumb: Part 1
By Guido Stein, Ángel Cervantes and Marta Cuadrado
This article, which is in two parts, aims to acquaint readers with the main personnel management...
Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management
By Winfried Ruigrok
Diversity management is a key instrument to position your company as a preferred employer. Fail to recite this mantra and you risk...
Unpacking the ‘Big Data’ Skill Set: It’s not Just – or Even Mostly –...
By Mihnea Moldoveanu
Big Data presents challenges and opportunities that need a new set of skills. Current formulations of the Big Data skill set are...
The Happiness Conundrum
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Based on a case example of a deeply unhappy person, this article examines the elusive topic of happiness,...
What’s Your Superpower?
By Lauren Noël and Christie Hunter Arscott
Imagine you enter an interview for a job and an executive asks you: “What’s your superpower?” How would...
Managing People in Mergers and Acquisitions Part 2: Integration and Survival
By Guido Stein and Marta Cuadrado
In Part One, we addressed the key reasons why companies decide to pursue merger, the reasons why many...
Whither Talent?
By Adrian Furnham
To what end can talent be defined, sought out and developed? In this article Andrew Furnham discusses the different ideas of what...
The Transformation Imperative Collaborative Leadership is Key For Future Success
By John Mattone
In this article, John Mattone discusses how progressive leaders in the business world are moving away from a conventional leadership culture and...
Creating a Sustainable Society through Integrated Reporting Delivered via Cloud Computing
By Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles
A sustainable strategy is best reinforced through integrated reporting, a new management practice based on an integrated presentation...
Strategising to Win On the Global Playing Field: Making Real Strategic Choices in...
By Bart Tkaczyk
Attract the best people. Own shares either in good ships, or in none at all. Make your ship attractive, then good people...
Organizational health: The ultimate competitive advantage
By Scott Keller and Colin Price
To sustain high performance, organizations must build the capacity to learn and keep changing over time.
The case for health...
The Art and Science of Negotiating a Job Offer
By Guido Stein and Kandarp Mehta
In every professional’s journey, there are those defining moments which can change one’s entire career. In this article, the...
The Psychology of Disenchantment
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Justice has always been a major issue among people. Especially in an organisational context, where many employees with different values, interests, and...
The Business of People: Effective Strategies to Drive Success in Global Business
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In this article, Sharon M. Schweitzer delves into the intricacies of the global marketplace. She shares an eight-point introduction in cultivating communication...
Making Corporate Learning Work
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Corporate Learning functions are under pressure to deliver like never before. Yet studies have repeatedly shown that business leaders’...
Managing People in Mergers and Acquisitions Part 1: Reasons and Reality
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In Part One of this article we will address a number of issues related to mergers. First, we will...
Why Reward for Performance Fails to Deliver
By Jonathan Trevor
Blind conformity can be very dangerous especially when it comes to managing your company’s talent. In this article, the author elaborates on...
Careering Off Track: The New World of Work
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Today, the idea of a ‘job for life’ is, for many people, neither possible nor desirable. The concept of the career has,...
Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing our Work and Non-Work Identities in...
By Lakshmi Ramarajan & Erin M. Reid
Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers’ personal and professional lives, as workers today navigate employer pressures...
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When appointing corporate centre executives, many large firms focus on...
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