Tag Archives: Leadership

Talent Acquisition, Succession Planning and the Superbowl

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written by Larry Janis

Millions of people follow the game of professional football from preseason to the Superbowl.  Their interests are usually focused on the offensive and defensive talent on the field.

These players we admire are there because of the team’s scouting talent, the coaches and the general managers and their ability to identify and acquire talent. This talent acquisition process provides bench strength – literally – and resources for succession planning for the next year’s season. Continue reading →

Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil?

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by Gianpiero Petriglieri

The last decade has been a one of soul-searching for business schools worldwide. Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down? Continue reading →

Don’t Get Stuck as Someone Else’s Second-in-Command

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By John Beeson

Every senior executive would love to have an Allan Taylor on his or her team. And that was the nub of Allan’s problem. For a number of years, Allan has reported to a highly visionary manager, and they made a great team. Allan has ensured consistent execution of his boss’s strategic initiatives — and is quickly falling into what I call the “first lieutenant syndrome.” Continue reading →

The dumbest interview questions of 2012

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Written by Anne Fisher

If some of the things you’ve been asked in job interviews lately have struck you as kind of peculiar, cheer up. It’s not you, it’s them.

FORTUNE — “Are you a nerd?” “Can you dance?” “If you were a doughnut, what kind would you be?” When talent management consultants Development Dimensions International quizzed more than 2,000 newly hired employees about strange questions they had fielded in job interviews, the researchers got an earful. Some hiring managers’ queries are not just odd, they’re banned by law. See if you can spot the illegal questions in the following list. (Answers are at the bottom.) Continue reading →

Finding the Job of Your Life

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wriiten by Gianpiero Petriglieri

Let’s face it. We all think about it. At times we think of little else — even if only rarely and in certain settings do we feel free to admit it. The conversation often begins furtively, the question murmured as if slightly shameful or out of place. How can I get more of it at work?

Meaning, that is.

Meaning at work, in work, from work. Despite work even. Meaningful work. However you put it, we crave meaning more than ever. Continue reading →