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How to Use Mentoring to Attract and Retain Talent

Skip Prichard

Recent data suggests that more than 50% of the workforce consists of people born after 1981—Millennials (born 1981-1996) and Generation Z (born 1997-2012). Zachary often says, “learning is the purpose, process, and product of mentoring.” This requires understanding the desires of the labor force.

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Eighth Annual Hay Group Study Identifies Best Companies for Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20. Could Mark Zuckerberg be the next Jack Welch when it comes to talent development? I’ll need to talk to Hay and find what they’ve been up to.

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Can Harmony Hurt Team Performance?

Harvard Business Review

Take a look at this: the brutal reflections of Jake Cornelius , a Stanford and Cambridge graduate, currently training with the US Rowing Team in preparation for the 2012 Olympics , and a member of the 2007 Boat Race winning Cambridge crew. Or is competition something to be exploited even at the risk of friendship?

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Understanding the Game Being Played in Washington

Harvard Business Review

It’s an evolutionary process — one that, if repeated enough times under exactly the same circumstances might lead to an optimal result but under more realistic conditions is more likely to oscillate between different norms/conventions/equilibria. Their districts tend to be pretty safely Republican, so their jobs aren’t at risk.