Archive for 'Leadership'

Change Management – Use What You’ve Got

Over the last 25 years, I have worked with many groups and individuals in managing and navigating major change, whether implementing new technology, acquiring a new company, turning around a struggling business, bringing new leaders into an organization or other projects that have implications for the people of an organization. One thing I’ve noticed that [...]

Human Capital or Social Capital?

I’ve struggled with the term “Human Capital” for a while now.  It always felt like a limited economic or financial concept that only captures a part of the value of an organizations workforce.  Economists often describe human capital as the value a worker provides to an organization.  Value is often described in terms of the [...]

Balance Tough-Minded Action & Accountability with Intuition & Compassion

I was on the way to visit a client recently and was listening a radio program discussing the difficulties of those that are unemployed finding work. Of the 5 or so commentators, one was a corporate HR leader and another an external recruiter. Both explained that it was a great job market for those who [...]

Embrace Innovation, Embrace Social Media

Innovation & HR If you ask a CEO where innovative thinkers are to be found in the organization, it’s a good bet that it’s not HR. Luckily events are conspiring in our favor where we will get another chance at bat. Given the advances in technology in general, and web technology in particular, businesses are [...]

Courage

Executive Pay “The recent economic crisis and the role that our compensation systems played in fomenting it require a holistic re-examination not only of compensation but of the assumptions and values underlying the economic system we have created.” (The Pay Problem: Time for a New Paradigm for Executive Compensation; Lorsch & Khurana, Harvard Magazine- May-June [...]