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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. Sarah Sladek started researching demographic shifts, talent turnover, and generation gaps in 2002. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” It is one of the top selling business books of all time and a favourite among CEOs. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). By Jim Collins.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Okay, let me see if I understand this…a good coach doesn’t necessarily need any experience, but if they’re a really good listener, can restate what their client tells them, and ask a few good questions, then they can miraculously lead a client to the ah-ha moment that transforms their life and their career.

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What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out" stood proudly at the lunatic fringe of innovation.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more."

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What Tech Companies Can Do to Become a Force for Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

” Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said that to TechCrunch in 2010 , but the line from then to now is the graph of our growing disenchantment with tech. For their part, black and Latinx workers have together ticked up only slightly since 2002, to 14.7% of employment in those occupations in 2016.