I was recently listening to Shankar Vedantam, the social science correspondent on NPR, discuss why collaboration becomes almost impossible when you have senior leaders in the same room. This should come as no surprise to those that study this kind of stuff. For example, you have probably heard…
As most of you are aware (especially the thousands of our alumni 🙂 ), we have always been extremely passionate about competency development. While there are many key areas where we differ from all the others on the topic of Competency Based Talent Development, the one that has…
Session One – We must redefine the role of contracting in light of worldwide changes and the business context we live in, but how and where do we start – with our ‘trading partners’ or ourselves (businesses)? As our world is changing (global reach, green, sustainability, immigration, etc.)…
. . . . the more they remain the same. It was many years ago when I had just moved to the USA. My first job as a Controller also included the responsibility for Purchasing. A few months into it, it was obvious that we were losing money…
A good friend, colleague and my intellectual provocateur Tim Cummins (IACCM) and I have been talking about this issue for quite a long time and finally decided to collaborate and do something about it. We have co-hosted about 15-20 different sessions in our relationship but this feels different. …
