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How to “Freshen up” your Stale Succession Planning Process

Great Leadership By Dan

There was also a room full of talent management practitioners, so it was a lively dialog. For example, if you are looking to expand into a new market, are your succession and development discussions aligned towards achieving that goal? Are your talent review discussions getting more sophisticated?

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Failure to Communicate

Marshall Goldsmith

I also explained how the company’s bureaucracy, high overhead and stifling corporate culture might not work in the “new world” of business. Of course, we all know what happened in the ensuing years: AT&T deteriorated, as it neglected to adapt to a quickly evolving market. Our session didn’t last long.

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Three Steps to Create Optimism in the Workplace

Chart Your Course

” In “Marketing for Scientists” Marc Kucher listed words Jobs used to describe his products between 1998 and 2008: stunning, revolutionary, awesome, beautiful, best, tour de force, cool, remarkable. Is bureaucracy weighing you down? In branding, Jobs understood the power of optimism. Remove obstacles.

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Strategies to Attract Superpower Marketing Talent

Harvard Business Review

Today’s most competitive marketplace isn’t technology but talent. The challenge of attracting and retaining talent is particularly acute for marketers. In this new world, the best marketers exhibit five superpowers – each of which requires new types of talent. How: Think of it as marketing, not HR.

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The Future of Marketing, as Seen at Cannes Lions

Harvard Business Review

These systems are digital at their core, and leverage network effects and the ability of the “digital democracy” to find the best talent and ideas wherever they exist. Airbnb is not only challenging the biggest hotel chains but also challenging the bureaucracy, going after the New York City housing and tax laws that stand it its way.

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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business Review

When contending for talent in a competitive world, no organization — let alone the largest in the world, with the largest stakes — can afford to lose employees like 2nd Lieutenant Riley. We learned that we would need to change the way we used analytics and data and the way we managed our personnel processes.

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Warren Buffett's 2010 Shareholder Letter: What to Expect

Harvard Business Review

Imagine if managements, boards, and investors adopted them: we could restart our economy, energize our business school curricula and create prosperity for our children and grandchildren. Berkshire's talented managers get the P&L independence to run their own businesses. He annually reports on his own mistakes.

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