“Step to the Rear,” from the 1967 Broadway production How Now, Dow Jones, announces that “here’s where we separate the notes from the noise, the men from the boys, the rose from the poison ivy.” In this rousing musical, the characters center their lives around the stock market and saving the US economy. Helping organizationsRead more
The first step in giving yourself a talent advantage is to hire the best and brightest in your industry. Bad hiring decisions will cost you, both in dollars and lost opportunities, so get that right, and you will have taken the critical first step to make sure you have a number of high potentials toRead more
Want to improve profits and grow your business? Give yourself the talent advantage! Hire well, promote the most deserving, and invest in your people. When you do, people in your organization will develop fierce loyalty, exhibit infectious enthusiasm for the work they do, and want to spend their careers growing along with their organizations. WhenRead more
In your chain of command, you may have “Baby Boomers,” “Gen Xers,” some members of “Generation Y,” and probably some from “Why Nots?” or whatever names have made their way into the books since I started writing this article. Authors fill these books with advice about how you must manage and lead the people inRead more
The starting gun in the race for talent has been fired. The Baby Boomers are starting to leave the workforce, and the impending retirement of more looms. Global expansion into unfamiliar markets, like China, has begun, but our schools continue to fail to prepare a large enough pool of high potential, financially literate candidates forRead more
