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Talent Management Best Practice 4 – Know Your Artificial Employment Retainers

Strategy Driven

Every manager should seek to know the stay/leave propensity of his or her subordinates and certainly that of top performers. Recognizing these signs and factoring them into an assessment of employee loss risk is important to a manager’s ability to retain top talent. Talent Management Best Practice 1 – Ensure Employability.

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Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. Diddy.

Roundtable Talk

From my perspective, chasing the dream not the paper is applicable whether you’re running a business or managing your career. On the flip side, people who I know who don’t love their jobs but make lots of money seem to spend a lot of time throwing around words like “golden handcuffs” and seem to be perpetually stressed and unhappy.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ Running the business. Body of Knowledge. Communications.