6 Ways Recruiters Can Make a Difference

by | Feb 28, 2012 | ERE Articles

Never before has the time been riper for recruiters to make a real difference to the profitability of their firms. The differentiator between profits, innovative products, and long-term success is, very simply, the quality of talent. As gatekeepers, your function is...

5 Predictions for Recruitment 2012

by | Jan 4, 2012 | ERE Articles

I was just reviewing the predictions I made for 2011 written at roughly this time a year ago. Much of what I thought would happen unfolded as expected, except for talent management. I had thought there would more focus on integrating the employee development and...

“The Medium is the Massage” in 2011

by | Dec 3, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas

The year is 1967 and an academic named Marshall McLuhan writes a book.  It’s a book called “The Medium is the Massage,” with only a few pages, pictures, white space and not very many words. It would revolutionize how we think about media. The title: “The Medium is the...

5 Trends that will Shape our Future

by | Nov 16, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas

At our Future of Talent Retreat this past weekend, I laid out the five trends I see as dominating the next decade or more.  In an age of mechanization, such as the 20th century, we glorified all things mechanical and we developed hierarchal and mechanistic systems to...