Carrying Rocks or Building a Castle
December 15, 2008
What does it take to truly build something? Plans? Yes, plans are important. Materials and People? People are the most important factor when building anything. Before you can start to look at plans and gather materials, your people must be…
Energy Crisis at Work
August 11, 2008
Is the rising cost of people threatening your business? The War for Talent has put a crunch on the people supply, driving up the price of talent. In fact people now account for about 70% of operating cost, depending on the…
A Great Place to Work
July 14, 2008
Not long ago SuccessFactors Research and thought leader Amy Lyman hosted the webinar The Business Benefits of Being a Great Place to Work. People who love their jobs work harder and do better. It follows then that creating a “great place…
If you are going to fail, do it fast
May 22, 2008
It’s an old adage that you have to try and fail before you succeed, in fact entrepreneurs practically live by this code. But what about established organizations? A lot of businesses don’t feel this way, even though they should. The…
HCM is good for the Green
April 24, 2008
Recently Saugatuck Technologies released a study showing that SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Human Capital Management software contributes at least 2-3% to top line growth – definitely good news for companies seeking more green. An article in this week’s San Francisco Chronicle made me start…
Employees Want More Work? (Not Less?)
April 17, 2008
I’m happy to post this guest blog by Doug Klein President of Sirota Survey Intelligence and one of SF Research’s Thought Leader partners. Doug will present findings from resent research on this topic with us in a webinar next week. Join…
What’s the time? - It doesn’t matter it’s always now…
April 11, 2008
I was preparing for a presentation about change management and how HCM technology drives results that I plan to deliver at an HCM conference when I saw this video. I must say that Sam Zell really nails it when addressing…
Do you look forward to coming to work?
April 10, 2008
While the world is experiencing a war for talent, each region has its own, unique talent related challenges. Indeed there are local talent management phenomena, as Jason Averbook from Knowledge Infusion and I discussed in his recent blog.
In some…
Does People Performance Really Matter?
November 5, 2007
Imagine you are on the football field – What if 15% of your performance is dependent on the play you select, and 85% of your performance is dependent on your ability to make the play? Where would you invest most…
Think you can do better than your boss?
June 20, 2007
Max’s Note: As part of our quest to post more and more often, I’m proud to present this guest post by Sammi Nuttall.
According to a new survey completed by Korn/Ferry International, nearly 73% of executive level employees believed that they could…
