Economic Downswing: Let’s not make the same mistakes again
October 9, 2008
Making mistakes can be a good thing if you learn from them. Making the same mistakes again and again is stupid and costly.
The economy goes in cycles. I know it feels like a long time ago, but do you…
Viva Pay for Performance! Even Cuba gets it!
June 13, 2008
It is always surprising when people resist the idea that pay and performance are related. It is so logical - reward your best, and make sure that slackers aren’t hanging around being rewarded.
Why would a rock star keep performing…
Attack at the top of the hill
April 28, 2008
Go on the offense in the war for talent when your competition is hurt. Yes you hurt too but winning in business or in bike racing is a relative game - very relative. Of course you are stronger and feel…
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…
Give me what I need not just what I want!
January 18, 2008
I was just checking my Yahoo! mail where I saw an email highlighting a really cool piece of research recently done in the UK, studying how the Google generation (people born after 1993) go about getting information. The study, information…
Insource the strategic stuff
November 19, 2007
Cost, talent, or innovation – which of these three challenges will drive Human Capital Management decisions in the future? The answer is easy: all of them. The question of how to address these drivers is a far more strategic and important…
Where is Here?
October 25, 2007
Erik’s note: We’re happy to present this guest post by Chris Lozaga a Research Analyst in SuccessFactors Global Research team
I once taught a class designed to introduce senior citizens to computers. By far, the internet was the most difficult…
Who is working for you today?
August 29, 2007
Ask HR to provide a list from the payroll and you should get the answer with reasonable accuracy, - right?
Well, with an average 20% of the working population (Manpower estimate) working for one company but technically being paid from…
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…
A spoonful of sugar
May 17, 2007
Dion Hinchcliffe, a well-known blogger and thought leader in the Enterprise 2.0 space wrote a post recently in which he talked about the next generation of business software – social, interactive tools easily delivered over the Web – and how they…
