Talent Management
Does your organization grade on a curve? In other words, when assessing employee performance, does your process force you to…
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Anytime a CEO, quarterback, engineer or author is paid ridiculous amounts of money, dozens of investors, armchair quarterbacks, and scholars…
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Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, correct. So is Mark Andreessen. Some programmers and programming teams are, indeed, 100X more productive…
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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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Tomorrow sees the NBA Draft — since 1950 the means of bringing the cream of college basketball talent into the…
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I’m pleased, although not surprised, by the incredible wave of reactions to and comments about my post, "Great People Are…
Last month, in an article in the New York Times on the ever-escalating "war for talent" in Silicon Valley, Facebook…
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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Every day I go to meetings where language suggests people are cogs. With peers in a few CEO roundtables, I’ve…
Have you ever worked with someone who made your own job difficult? Someone who forced you to pick up the…
Think of a team of military commandos and an image of camouflaged, disciplined athletes in their late teens or early…
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Think of a team of military commandos and an image of camouflaged, disciplined athletes in their late teens or early…
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