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...

Six Talent Trends for 2010

In late January, I gave my annual webinar outlining six major trends I think will affect how we think about employees and work in 2010 and beyond.  These themes  constitute the core research the Future of Talent Institute will conduct this year.  The result will be a...

T-Shaped People & Collaboration

Many organizations are realizing that when people are assigned or choose roles to play in an organization they are often more creative and efficient than when they are confined to the duties prescribed by a title or position. I just read a amazingly thought provoking...

Weekend Ruminations

Asia This was my first week back after several weeks in Asia.  It is hard to explain the difference in mood between Asia and the U.S. Technically the economies of both China and Hong Kong may be suffering, but everything is relative. And relative to us, Hong Kong...