October, 2016

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Why Corporations Have a Talent Problem

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The reason most corporations are broken when it comes to talent acquisition is they are simply looking for the wrong things through the wrong lens. Their hiring models are built for the old economy. They are looking for conformity rather than a non-conformity. They look to protect the status quo rather than disrupt it. They are hiring for the present and not for the future.

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Culture By Design: The 6 Levers of Customization

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Last week, we published the 2nd installment of our 3-part series on corporate culture transformation. It focused on core work products that must be produced to transform a corporate culture. Here is the final installment of the concept that I’m calling Culture By Design. This week we’ll look at the 6 cultural levers that every management team has at its disposal to set cultural direction and manage the change that is necessary to establish an organization’s Culture by Design, i

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Vin Scully And Me

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Vin Scully, the voice of baseball’s Dodgers for their final years in Brooklyn and all of their years in Los Angeles, is retiring at the end of this season. Scully , who got his start in broadcasting career as college student Fordham in New York, began calling games with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950 when he was just 22. He worked alongside the great Red Barber, and succeeded Ernie Harrell, both legendary Hall of Fame announcers.

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A Company Health & Wellness Center that Delivers High Value Low Cost Healthcare – Is it Possible?

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Each year HR professionals undertake an annual process to determine what benefits will be offered to employees as part of their benefit package – possibly considering what benefit will be taken away or how much premiums will increase to offset growing benefit plan costs. The changing landscape created by the Affordable Care Act has made it difficult, but not impossible to assert control over company health care spend.

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C-Suite Tip Number 1

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We all know about the pyramid structure. It’s a generic way to think about an enterprise and how most are organizationally design. Divided into three layers, the top layer of the pyramid is comprised of the senior-most leaders. These are the people responsible for setting strategic direction and guiding the enterprise towards its future. While certainly concerned with quarterly performance, the leaders at the top of the pyramid must also have a forward-thinking, “Where will we be in

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The Boss Gives A Leadership Lesson In Self-Awareness

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“I wanted to be a voice that reflected experience and the world I live in. So I knew in 1972 that to do this, I would need to write very well and more individually than I had ever written before.”. That is Bruce Springsteen quoted in his autobiography, Born to Run. Defining himself as an artist is something the Boss spoke about at length with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air.

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Peter Berg: Become The Best Version Of Yourself

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You can’t be your best if you don’t make time for yourself! Here’s how writer-director-producer Peter Berg put it when speaking about his passion for boxing. “[T]he contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.”.

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