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.
Research and Insights Archive
Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations
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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.
Anatomy of a High Potential
In this webinar on February 22, Jay Conger discussed recent research on the characteristics of high potentials.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
HR: Time for a Reset
Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explains that in many cases HR ends up doing a considerable amount of HR administrative work in order to take the “burden” off line managers. It may mean that HR is no longer a BPU (business prevention unit) and that it has a seat at the table.
HR Function of the Future, 12/9/2010
John Boudreau spoke on the HR Function of the Future: How Strategic Partnership with Impact Reshapes the HR Profession on December 9, 2010.
Fast HRM: Confidence, Energy and Engagement
In this particular Leadership Pulse Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) studied a topic we have been doing quite a bit of work on called fast human resource management (HRM). We asked respondents to rate the degree to which HR is fast and also score how accurate the HR group is.