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August 5, 2017 Cait Etherington
When most organizations tackle diversity issues, they do so by creating programs to recruit minorities, including women, members of the LGBT community, and visible minorities. To date, these programs have changed the workforce but they have not yet created organizations where executive teams and boards of directors are not primarily White and male. In fact, […]
read moreFebruary 3, 2017 Sherman Morrison
In my previous article, Why Teams Fail, I looked at Patrick Lencioni’s seminal work in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, which lays out very clearly five things that ultimately kill teams – absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results. Understanding why teams […]
read moreDecember 13, 2016 Cait Etherington
As 2016 comes to a close, Talent Management 360 is offering detailed insights into some of the year’s top news stories and speculating on how these stories will likely continue to impact talent management in the coming year. The second article in our series examines one of 2016’s most surprising stories: the U.K.’s sudden decision […]
read moreNovember 5, 2016 Cait Etherington
You’ve tried transparency. You’ve tried culture. You’ve tried increasing engagement. You’ve even embraced the workplace design trend. What’s next? The Harvard Business Review recently published an article by Italian management expert, Francesca Gino, on the need to let employees rebel. That’s right–rebel. To be fair, Gino is not talking about full-on anarchy but rather a […]
read moreJuly 31, 2016 Cait Etherington
As the summer winds down and the school year looms, it is not just employers but also parents and college-age students who are thinking about the relationship between education and job training. While liberal arts degrees have long existed and at times been considered the best start for people working across sectors, harsh economic times, […]
read moreJanuary 11, 2016 Ashley Sutphin
In today’s economy, the phrase start-up tends to evoke the concept of a glamorous lifestyle in which entrepreneurs become their own bosses and create multi-million dollar companies. While this may be the case for very few startups, the actual reality is one that involves long work days, struggling to find funding, and one of the […]
read moreDecember 28, 2015 Ashley Sutphin
If you’re unsure of what Airbnb does, it provides a website that lets people find and list lodging throughout the world, but not the kind of accommodations you’ll find on Expedia. Rather, it’s a peer-to-peer concept where you can temporarily rent private residences from people almost anywhere in the world.
read moreNovember 16, 2015 Sherman Morrison
Whenever two companies come together through the merger and acquisition (M&A) process, something many forget to consider are the difficulties that arise when two different company cultures come together. Oddly enough, even though it is this difference of cultures that often leads to M&A failure in delivering expected outcomes, surprisingly little attention is paid to […]
read moreNovember 11, 2015 Ashley Sutphin
Netflix has revolutionized the way people watch TV and movies. This on-demand streaming media service is available throughout the globe, and it now has more 69 million subscribers, with 43 million of those being in the U.S. Netflix has been so successful it’s also launched its own original programming line-up including the highly popular House […]
read moreOctober 12, 2015 Ashley Sutphin
Recently the Wall Street Journal covered something that’s turning out to be an interesting conundrum for businesses. They’re offering flexible work programs and attempting to help employees carve out a stronger work-life balance, but employees aren’t necessarily taking advantage of the options.
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