Carrying Rocks or Building a Castle
December 15, 2008
What does it take to truly build something? Plans? Yes, plans are important. Materials and People? People are the most important factor when building anything. Before you can start to look at plans and gather materials, your people must be motivated to... Read more...
Make it Simple, Fun and Relevant - Part 1
November 30, 2008
Often when meeting with customers and prospects I get the question: how do we make SuccessFactors so easy to use for managers and employees across the world? The question always arises from HR pros when I explain that we dont build SuccessFactors for... Read more...
Gen-Probe Proves Companies can With Through People
November 20, 2008
We often talk about the advantages of using talent and performance management systems to drive results and gain a competitive edge over other organizations. Our research and the research of our thought leader partners shows how human capital management... Read more...
Be Quick or Be Dead
October 20, 2008
Aside from being the title of a great song from one of the greatest rock bands ever -Iron Maiden- Be Quick or Be dead is a great metaphor for today’s business environment. No matter how you look at it speed is picking up and someone will take advantage... Read more...
Economic Downswing: Let’s not make the same mistakes again
October 9, 2008
Making mistakes can be a good thing if you learn from them. Making the same mistakes again and again is stupid and costly. The economy goes in cycles. I know it feels like a long time ago, but do you remember that we had a pretty quick and tough downswing... Read more...
Attack with the Tip of the Spear
August 27, 2008
Last week my colleague Chris blogged about the differences between competencies and skills - over the course of my consulting experience, I developed a simple framework for putting skills and competencies to work. Think about throwing a spear the first... Read more...
Energy Crisis at Work
August 11, 2008
Is the rising cost of people threatening your business? The War for Talent has put a crunch on the people supply, driving up the price of talent. In fact people now account for about 70% of operating cost, depending on the industry and this number is... Read more...
Because You’re Young
June 18, 2008
The title of this blog entry is taken from a song on one of my favorite David Bowie albums, “Scary Monster & Super Creeps”. If you own this album, there is a good chance you are a member of my generation (X). In my experience, knowledge of... Read more...
Viva Pay for Performance! Even Cuba gets it!
June 13, 2008
It is always surprising when people resist the idea that pay and performance are related. It is so logical - reward your best, and make sure that slackers aren’t hanging around being rewarded. Why would a rock star keep performing if he or she were... Read more...
Managing Tomorrow Today
June 2, 2008
I’m happy to present this guest blog from our Thought Leader partner and my friend Dr. Jac Fitz-enz. Predicting the future is a big business. Economists, financiers, demographers, pollsters and pundits are paid big money for their insights into what... Read more...
