In Management Reset, Ed Lawler and Chris Worley, the authors of the best-selling book Built to Change offer a next-step resource for any organization that wants to thrive in our difficult economic environment.
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Talent Management – How do you find and develop top talent?
CEO Executive in Residence Ian Ziskin discussed the factors that characterize a Talenterprise (TM), an organization that is particularly effective at finding and developing talent, as well as his new book, WillBe: 13 Reasons WillBe’s are Luckier than WannaBe’s, which outlines what distinguishes up and coming high potentials from other people.
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Nine Principles for Sustainable Talent Management
Talent management is arguably the single most important HR activity in a sustainable management organization (SMO).This article by Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) describes nine principles and practices that should drive the way talent is managed in SMOs.
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WillBe: 13 Reasons WillBe’s are Luckier than WannaBe’s
In WillBe: 13 Reasons WillBe’s are Luckier than WannaBe’s, author Ian Ziskin draws on his nearly 30 years of experience working with and developing thousands of aspiring leaders to offer a fast-paced and often amusing perspective on leadership behaviors that lead to success.
Creating Sustainable-Effective Businesses
Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) talk about necessary steps and give example of companies making themselves into sustainably effective organizations.
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Anatomy of a High Potential
In this webinar on February 22, Jay Conger discussed recent research on the characteristics of high potentials.
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Beyond Change Management: From Traditional Phase Models to More Robust Models of Transformation Amidst Chaos, 2/7/2011
Chris Worley and Sue Mohrman highlighted the characteristics of more advanced models of continuous change and transformation suitable in today’s complex and dynamic environments. They noted that many organizations faced with overlapping cycles of changes that may or may not be nicely integrated in a neat and tidy model and that cannot be fully aligned, and also that an organization’s resilience is based on creating and preserving diversity in talent, strategies, and systems.
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Loblaw Sustainable Seafood Initiative
Barbara Steele (Strategic Partnerships) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw) is a Canadian chain of food supermarkets, the largest retailer of grocery and household products in the country
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Targeted and Predictive Human Capital Analytics
Alec Levenson spoke on January 20, 2011 about the fact that maximizing the contribution people make to the bottom line is a critical issue for organizations, and analytics are a foundation of those insights.
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Using Targeted Analytics to Improve Talent Decisions
Alec R. Levenson (CEO) shares that analytics and metrics offer great potential to improve the quality of decision making on HR and human capital issues in organizations.
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Engaged in What? So What? A Role-Based Perspective for the Future of Employee Engagement
The point made in this chapter by Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) is that employee engagement is an effort worth pursuing . It puts a name on something we know matters to people, society and business. However, in this chapter the suggestion will be made that employee engagement is not a construct at all.
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Useful Research: Advancing Theory and Practice
Useful Research (Susan Albers Mohrman, Edward E. Lawler III, and Associates (Berrett-Koehler, 2011)) is designed to discuss the legitimacy and importance of conducting useful research to benefit both theory and practice in the field of organizational and management research.