Making Better Decisions—Bees Do It
One of the key factors Ben Horowitz uses in evaluating chief executives is their skill at making decisions. Horowitz should know. As a venture capitalist, he is in the business of hiring CEOs—lots of them.
Browsing: Competency Based Talent Management
“Generation Next” – Give Passion A Chance to Grow
I read a blog post today from the HBR Blog Network entitled “Solving Gen Y’s Passion Problem” written by a Generation Y member, Cal Newton. He notes several sources that have called this generation “Generation Me”, “The Worst Generation” and “Generation Why Bother”. They are often characterized as “pampered”, “high maintenance” and “perhaps . . . too happy at home checking Facebook”.
What Is a Millennial to Do?
Lately, I have been thinking about Anne’s blog post from a few weeks ago called Next Practices with “Generation Next.” In the article, she talks about Millennials (folks born between 1980 and 1995), and since I was born in 1980, I guess I fit into…
Take Care of Your Best People or Someone Else Will
Take care of your best people or someone else will. I’m sure you have heard this saying many times; I know that I have. How many of us really internalize the meaning to ensure that we are indeed doing everything we can to retain our very best people?
Next Practices with “Generation Next”
The “Millennials” or often referred to as “Generation Next” are not only coming, they are already here. With this new generation 80 million strong (born between 1980 and 1995) and rapidly taking over from the baby boomers who are now pushing 60, we are being forced to look at talent management in a completely new way. We must take a Next Practice approach to managing “Generation Next” or lose the war for talent altogether. 60 Minutes’ MorIey Safer did a report a few years ago entitled “The Millennials are Coming”
Who is the First Person You Should Hire (Part Deux) – Lutts and Mipps?
A question that has been asked repeatedly after my last post is related to asking the right questions so I thought that instead of responding individually, I would use this week’s blog post to respond to it. Those that have been through the Decision Making…