Plays Well With Others

When you were in elementary school I bet you received a report card with a section that indicated how well you played with the other kids in your class.  Strangely enough, schools have been promoting collaboration in this way for decades, even though it has become a...

Which Century is Your Organization In?

If you read my previous post on talent trends, you are aware that life in organizations is undergoing tectonic change.  We are moving from the mechanistic and manufacturing-oriented era that dominated the 19th and 20th centuries, to an era based on community,...

T-Shaped People, Jobs, and Recruiting

Recruiting is about to be forced to start looking for people and assessing them in very different ways than they have. The nature of organizations is transforming right under our noses, but most of us are too deep in the forest to see what is happening. Over the past...