Talent Management

Ron Ashkenas on June 28th, 2011

Does your organization grade on a curve? In other words, when assessing employee performance, does your process force you to…

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Jeff Stibel on June 27th, 2011

Anytime a CEO, quarterback, engineer or author is paid ridiculous amounts of money, dozens of investors, armchair quarterbacks, and scholars…

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Michael Schrage on June 27th, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, correct. So is Mark Andreessen. Some programmers and programming teams are, indeed, 100X more productive…

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George S. Everly, Jr. on June 24th, 2011

Current events teach us that crisis and even disaster occur far more frequently than previously anticipated. Japan’s post-tsunami crisis and…

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Mark de Rond, Adrian Moorhouse, and Matt Rogan on June 22nd, 2011

Tomorrow sees the NBA Draft — since 1950 the means of bringing the cream of college basketball talent into the…

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Bill Taylor on June 21st, 2011

I’m pleased, although not surprised, by the incredible wave of reactions to and comments about my post, "Great People Are…

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Bill Taylor on June 20th, 2011

Last month, in an article in the New York Times on the ever-escalating "war for talent" in Silicon Valley, Facebook…

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Ron Ashkenas on June 14th, 2011

Editor’s Note: This blog post is a sneak-peak to the upcoming article, "The Merger Dividend," by Ron Ashkenas and his…

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Nilofer Merchant on June 2nd, 2011

Every day I go to meetings where language suggests people are cogs. With peers in a few CEO roundtables, I’ve…

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Douglas R. Conant on June 2nd, 2011

Have you ever worked with someone who made your own job difficult? Someone who forced you to pick up the…

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H. James Wilson and Elaine Eisenman on May 31st, 2011

Think of a team of military commandos and an image of camouflaged, disciplined athletes in their late teens or early…

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H. James Wilson and Elaine Eisenman on May 31st, 2011

Think of a team of military commandos and an image of camouflaged, disciplined athletes in their late teens or early…

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