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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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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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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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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. Developing Talent. As any employer knows, recruitment is just the first step to talent management.

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Warren Buffett's 2010 Shareholder Letter: What to Expect

Harvard Business Review

Create a corporate culture that admits problems and maximizes talent : Buffett allocates capital, monitors enterprise risk, chooses the managers, and sets their compensation. 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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We Need a New Approach to Solve the Innovation Talent Gap

Harvard Business Review

I previously wished for a Shark-Tank for Corporate America to create more efficient capital markets to fund great innovation ideas bogged down by bureaucracy. Many companies lack the right talent to take on important new projects that could help create the business’s next big category. Innovation Talent management'