Recent articles on hiring, talent management and leadership: March 2011
What Happens When Your Business Stalls?
Don’t be put off by the alarmist title (“Reinvent your business before it’s too late”) in thisHarvard Business Review blog. Then again, the advice it offers is valuable. Authors Paul Nunes and Tim Breene write skillfully about the art of reinventing your business as it matures. They note that one of the three key characteristics of businesses that successfully reinvent themselves is that those businesses “nurture a ready supply of talent.” Sounds about right.>>Learn more…
Stayin’ Alive – Keeping Your Business Successful
What keeps long-standing businesses like General Electric and Shell thriving after decades in business? This Fortune article looks at what author Christian Stadler calls the “five principles of enduring success,” which he came up with after reading through corporate histories, collecting archival material, and interviewing 34 CEOs, chairmen and board members. One principle? Change can’t happen unless your employees are on board: “The first important step in any significant change is to listen to the organization,” he writes. >>Read the article…
Are Your Employees Looking Elsewhere? Are You Sure?
Stephanie Klein, president of Experience Factor, was published in the Denver Business Journal last month with an article that reviews how your employees may be looking elsewhere, even in such a tough economy. What does that mean for you? Read her insights, about why turnover can actually be a good thing, and what to do to keep your best employees happy and engaged. >>Read more…
Don’t Turn Away Talent
This thoughtful article in Human Resource Executive Online starts by asking a simple question: have you ever gone through the process of applying to a job at your own company, just to see what a potential applicant goes through? No? Well, you should. If you don’t, writes author Gideon Litoff, you may be inadvertently turning away the top talent for the position.>>Read the article…
Watch Lessons in Leadership: Who to fire?
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent online resource available for business leaders called Lessons in Leadership. This great video features Viacom CEO Phillippe Dauman talking about the difficult task of making job cuts to help a business survive. >>Watch the video…
Blogging Increases Productivity: Experts
To most people, having employees write about their personal lives on a company blog probably sounds like a massive waste of time, but that’s not entirely true, according to this article in Forbes. Researchers have found that when employees write about their lives on a company blog, it brings employees together and ultimately increases productivity. Google, General Motors and IBM have started employee blogs, maybe it’s time you considered it.>>Learn more…
3 Generations at Wolf Creek Ski Area
Looking for some light, interesting reading? This Inc. Magazine article details the trials and tribulations of the Pitcher family and Wolf Creek Ski Area in southern Colorado, where three generations of the family have created a thriving business. Author Mike Steere writes about how “in the high lonesome of Colorado’s San Juan Range,” the family manages the ski area, and how 91-year-old Kingsbury “Pitch” Pitcher turned two failing ski areas into successes by utilizing the talent present in his own family. >>Read more….
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