Motivation: The Key to Building Talent
“Motivation is the reason that people develop talent in the first place.” That line from Adam Grant’s book “Give and Take” really made me stop … Read more
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A Key to Optimising Your Human Capital
The perpetual balancing act between selfishness and selflessness, or self-interest and group-interest, is evolutionarily fundamental. So much so that it has been described as “The … Read more
Human Governance: Golden Rule or Platinum?
Last week I wrote about The Golden and Platinum Rules in the context of Customer Experience. Today I want to discuss them in the broader … Read more
Kill the Performance Review
Performance reviews remain in the news. Last week I wrote about Accenture’s abandoning them, but this week came the even more shattering news that GE … Read more
People as Assets
A Google search on “people assets” yielded 664 million results! That is very nearly two thirds of a billion. Mind-boggling! (As is the fact that … Read more
KISS and end the War for Talent!
Do you ever sense that things are too complicated? I do. And two things make the feeling even worse:- The increasing frequency with which it … Read more