Talent Management focuses on how people grow, contribute, and stay engaged in their work. A team where every person has a path to develop skill, mastery, and purpose is a stronger team.
An organization gains advantage when responsibility meets motivation in a clear and supportive environment. People perform at higher levels when they have motivation to understand expectations and genuine valued.
High performance team of me

Create firm value, build talent during a downturn

Confidence to learn and competence to contribute

Discounted risk is human capital risk

Fast Start — Failure demand

The bureaucrat and bureaucracy revisited

Golden parachutes reward risk or moral hazard?

Fast Start — 4 steps to set after-hours work expectations

Our big letdown with leaders

Diversity façade, part 1

Fortune 500 revenue here, won’t get you there

The communication obstacle course

What can a 5-year-old teach you about leadership?

Organizations don’t change, people change

Who knows? Many times not many people do

Can you engineer regional innovation clusters?

Human capital portfolio management and simple math

The bureaucracy option to manage risk

Organization development is business growth

More workers voluntarily quit their jobs

The NFL draft and your company recruiting strategy

5 reasons human resources hurt consumer brands

Fast Start — What, really, is change management?

Why 70 is a key metric for learning and development

Googled again: cost of culture is innovation

All hail the solution to the micromanager

1812: The Navy’s War by the book

Culture war

Ms. Education after graduation

Leading and managing

Evaluating risk: financial models versus competency models, part 1

It’s true, your boss is a psychopath — UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE?

Company social media strategy reflects organization culture — sales

Human capital beta is investment risk beta

Business as a foreign language for HR professionals

The skeptic builder makes a mess

Googled: the cost of culture

3 tips for anyone to design or evaluate training

Capability model incompetence

The key to innovation may be better employee hygiene

Fast Start — Scourge of performance reviews

Isn’t it enough that I told them?

Talent score report brought to you by your credit agency

Human capital risk: leverage data for strategic investment

4 performance myths dispelled and no more performance reviews
Fast Start — The brilliant mistake of health and wellness

Diversity façade, part 2: diversity hijacked

4 questions leaders need to ask … themselves

Human capital risk, now that’s real risk

The NFL draft and your company recruiting strategy (round 2)

Controlling bosses cause poor work

Root cause and critical path, that’s organization development

The cost of human capital is emotional intelligence

Technical ability does little to mitigate risk

Motivation management is resource management
Notes from Boston: the state of US venture capital

The most difficult industry to work in

Social Media: Fight, Flight, or Friend — organization development presentation

The value of information and the link to development

Belief to build, the skeptic’s dilemma

Forget what you learned

Stop giving advice people ignore

Low risk, low return human resources

3 performance review politics that always trump merit

Change: this time let’s try something new

Evaluating risk: financial models versus competency models, part 2

12 tips to bridge the generation gap

Competing values drive your organization out of business

The value of training on trial

The great spare-time revolution

The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered — 3 Views

Your star performer creates employee resentment

The bottom line: motivation

One rule to rule all: listen hear

Hiring the right person is more emotional than rational

8 steps to better decision-making

Hiring the right person is more cultural than technical

George Washington slept here

Emotion versus intelligence — the tortoise and the hare

Competing values drive organization resistance

The bully in the corner office

Why Startups Should ALWAYS Compromise When Hiring? — Never!

Sabbatical Day 1: Reset to advance

The best meeting icebreaker to break the ice

Human capital assessments — the symptom or the disease

An organization intervention is not an organization inquisition

This social media fad will ruin organization development

Leaders and fishing

Fast Start — CFOs’ top five priorities
