It’s not possible to produce much of anything if you don’t have the raw material needed for production and for any shared service function – and therefore sourcing/supply chain as well- the raw material is talent. Without the right talent and the organizational competence that derives from that,…
If you think the title refers to money, think again! Companies spend millions / billions of dollars a year on managing their balance sheet as if money was their scarcest resource. In a recent HBR article “What if Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?” the…
. . . to your top talent? If not, then please don’t complain when they walk out the door. For years, we have been talking about the war on talent – especially for highly skilled professionals in procurement, sourcing, finance, consulting, etc. Some of our clients spend so…
EVERY DAY I am reading articles that talk about how the role of X (pick any professional job – CFO, CIO, CPO, financial analyst, category manager, etc.) is changing and how difficult it is to find people with the right skills to play those roles. I’ve also seen…
If you don’t know the history of the Cheezborger, then you missed the glory years of Saturday Night Live (U-Tube it…is that a new verb now – U tubing?). The story of the goat and the curse is even more complicated but suffice it to say that the…
Now maybe the thousands of alumni of TMGs’ competency development programs will understand why we always start each and every workshop with a contract between TMG and each attendee that stipulates the responsibility of each attendee if they want to develop competency – APPLICATION or ADOPTION. In a…
