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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

In 2011, Kodak made the list of Top 10 Fortune 500 Employers With Older Workers, called out for employing a disproportionately high percentage of mature workers. Sarah Sladek started researching demographic shifts, talent turnover, and generation gaps in 2002. Human Resources'

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). It provides a comprehensive (yet very easy to read) summary of four decades of scientific research on human motivation, exposing a startling mismatch between what science knows and what business does.

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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

Rasmus has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development & Adult Learning and degrees in Philosophy and Human Resources. Notes : Harvard Business Review, “Beware the Busy Manager,” February 2002. Franklin Covey, “FranklinCovey Global Time Matrix™ Survey,” 2011. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 191, 2011, 36–43.

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The Problem with Using Personality Tests for Hiring

Harvard Business Review

Sara Rynes, Amy Colbert, & Kenneth Brown conducted a study in 2002 to determine whether the beliefs of HR professionals were consistent with established research findings on the effectiveness of various HR practices. According to a 2011 NBC News article , the use of personality assessments are on the rise, growing as much as 20% annually.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). Morey, Daryl; Maybury, Mark; Thuraisingham, Bhavani (2002). ISBN 0262133849.

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Moneyball and the Talent Mismatch Facing Business

Harvard Business Review

When I first read Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (the book that inspired the movie that opened this past weekend), I was struck by the similarities of the challenges that General Manager Billy Beane faced in 2002 to those that business employers face as they try to achieve the best returns on their talent investments.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Those issues slowed us down on the product side as well.