Human Resources
Human Resources
To compete in today’s marketplace, corporations need to develop employees that do more than just show up every day to work: employees need to be engaged in their work. Unfortunately, companies have historically...
Determining that IQ, as a singular measure of competence, could no longer be supported, Harvard professor, Howard Gardner, proposed (in Frames of Mind, 1985) a range of key competencies, which he calls multiple...
Having pondered why some people with very high IQ scores fail miserably in their personal lives, Harvard professor Howard Gardner, concluded that the concept of “intelligence,” as a singular measure of competence,...
According to Albrecht’s Law, "Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity." This, says the author, is a situation that is all too common throughout business and...
The millennial generation – comprised of individuals born between 1980 and 2001 – is shaking up the workplace. A polarizing generation that is both admired and critiqued, millennials are serious about changing work...
In Engagement Is Not Enough, Keith Ayers details the steps companies must take to engage with their employees and inspire passionate team participation. Managers of teams large and small will learn how...
Motivation is an authentic trait of leadership. While many have written before about motivation and leadership, Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders simplifies, by example, ways in which great...
Today's business world is characterized by fierce competition, as organizations jockey to become the most innovative, grab the largest market share, gain the most revenue, and realize the biggest profits. And, because...
While the attitude of Entitlement still exists in business and society, reinvention, reengineering, downsizing, rightsizing, delayering, etc., have put pressure on most organizations, both in the private sector and in...
In Critical Condition, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists Donald Barlett and James B. Steele go behind the scenes of the health care system, citing evidence that American spends more on...
