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Rethinking Performance Assessment
Here’s another assumption that is deeply embedded in much of our organizational behavior, but sadly out-of-date: If I keep my head down and do my own task well, I’ll be fine. This assumes that an...
View ArticleDon’t Let the Absence of Facts Slow You Down
We’ve all read articles bemoaning how calculators and their digital cousins have destroyed our children’s motivation to memorize the multiplication tables, crippling their mental math skills for life....
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Your Diversity Officer Should Be a Cruise Director
I’m uneasy with the idea of affinity groups, the single-dimension networks that are all the rage in the corporate diversity world. Seems every company I know is forming affinity groups centered on...
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Generations and Geography
Report by Tammy Erickson & Tim Bevins. Many of our most powerful and lasting beliefs are formed when we are teenagers, when we first shift our focus from tangible objects and begin to wrestle with...
View ArticleCorporate Myths - The future of talent management
Today’s organisations are ripe for change. Over the next several decades, we’ll see very different business entities take their place. Why? Because today’s organisations are designed in response to...
View ArticleCorporate Myths, Part II - The future of talent management
As I outlined in my earlier post, many popular talent management practices in today’s corporations were developed in response to conditions that no longer exist. Here are five more assumptions...
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The Case of the Rolling Stone (that Gathers No Moss) Resume
What would you think if a job candidate sent you a resume listing six jobs held in the last four years? Some of you would probably have an instinctively negative reaction: “This is someone who can’t...
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Why We Use Social Media in Our Personal Lives — But Not for Work
“We’ve spent a fortune on collaborative technology, but no one is using it … or if they are, it’s for purely social, non-productive activities.” Sound familiar? It’s a lament I’ve heard many times from...
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Trust Is Dead. Long Live Trust!
As business leaders pick up the post-recession pieces, I’m increasingly asked how companies can restore trust with employees. My answer: only by instituting new talent management approaches that...
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Generational Perspectives Can Strengthen Your Strategy
Imagine a Gen Y employee is invited to a corporate strategy session. He listens to the presentation, focused on evaluating which businesses have strong competitive positions and laying out long-term...
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Talent Management – When the Old Outnumber the Young
The population used to be shaped like a pyramid: lots of young people, a medium number of middle aged, and a few old folks. But the demographic geometry has changed radically in just the last few...
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How Organizational Hubs Encourage and Enhance Collaboration
Collaboration has a cost. It requires time and, in some cases, significant effort. When it comes to connections, more is often not merrier. As a result, people prioritize. We are most likely to...
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Post-Financial Crisis, a New Generation’s Views on Money
In 2008, adult conversations shifted. After nearly a decade of headlines on terrorism and the resultant wars, suddenly signs of financial trouble demanded top attention. Within months, the global...
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The Biggest Mistake You (Probably) Make with Teams
Throughout most of my career, I’ve made a big mistake in the way I’ve lead teams — and wouldn’t be surprised if you have, too. Which is more important to promoting collaboration: a clearly defined...
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How Mobile Technologies Are Shaping a New Generation
The cohort I like to call the “Re-Generation” began to take shape around 2008. Individuals at the formative ages of 11 to 13, those born after about 1995, were part of a substantively different world...
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Gen X Hits Another Bump in the Road
Here’s the bad news for Gen X: at each point thus far, you’ve drawn a pretty short straw. Your timing — at least in the context of contemporary generations, and through no fault of your own — could...
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Collaboration Will Drive the Next Wave of Productivity Gains
Increasing productivity — making more with less — is at the core of any company or any economy’s economic progress. From a societal view, productivity drives higher living standards and increases...
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Generation X and the Narrowing Career Path
Melissa, a talented Gen X’er, is given a promotion that puts her in direct contention for a key senior spot. Although her Boomer colleagues are offering their congratulations, Melissa finds herself...
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It’s Time to Re-Think the U.S. Education System
Children today, those born after 1995, are seeing a world that looks substantively different to them than the world did to members of Generation Y during their formative years. In an earlier post, I...
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The Rise of the New Contract Worker
More and more people are choosing a contingent work style — that is, temporary work that may be project-based or time-based — over full-time or part-time work. Temporary placement service provider...
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