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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. Human Resource Champions (1996). By David Ulrich. Winning (2005). By Jack Welch.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Human Resources & Leadership Development Professionals—Cohort 1. top-level internal coaching to executives.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries.

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The Right Way for an Established Firm to Do an Innovation Pilot with a Startup

Harvard Business Review

“Startnership” success, however, is all too rare. With apologies to Tolstoy, all happy start-up partnerships are alike; every unhappy innovation partnership is unhappy in its own way. Successful pilot partnerships favor fast focus over comprehensive planning.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

There are two areas in particular that I think need greater attention from the innovation community: The human side of innovation must be addressed. Innovation is, of course, an intensely human behavior. I've been increasingly telling people that the key to successful innovation is to become a Latter-Day Edison.

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3 Changes Retailers Need to Make to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images.

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

Harvard Business Review

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. Perhaps the new model for a successful business should be "Nimble." Or "Humanized." "Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. That is for sure.