Nine questions about talent management
Talent management is fundamentally based on understanding human nature, abilities, and potential. Often overlooked, the philosophy behind talent management plays a critical role in the implementation and effectiveness of these programs. The challenges of talent management start here.
What if people are not your most important asset?
In devoting our time to the efficient working order of the parts, we forget that all firms are just webs of relationships between people.
What does craft brewing tell us about a future public sector career?
The drivers behind the consumer thirst for craft beer and employee desires for more open career paths are similar and worth exploring.
The importance of learning to transformation
The position of work in our lives is significant, so learning through work potentially makes a disproportionately large contribution to the growth and identity of the individual. Do we need a better approach to L&D at work?
Striving for a common sense view of organisation
Reform, change and adaptation are sweeping the public and private sectors alike. We need a commonsense view of our organisations that doesn’t rely on the machine model.
On why organisations are like platypuses
Our organisations are much like the platypus, a collection of specialist adaptations.