What is the Talent Ecosystem?

Business needs change all the time, but talent programs and processes don’t. If you want your organization to keep evolving—and your employees to…

How to Improve the Odds of a Successful CEO Succession

Tailor your CEO succession planning process to your company’s specific needs and ensure long-term success. Boards are charged with maximizing the…

Transformational Change: Four Requirements for Success

Four Requirements for Success It doesn’t matter whether a troubled initiative needs to be resuscitated or a new strategy is about to be unleashed by…

A Practitioner’s Guide to Succession Planning

Without an Effective Succession Plan, Companies Can Risk It All. Only hours before a special board meeting on December 5, 2010, to discuss Jeff…

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Keeping Your Corporate Strategy at the Center of Your Organization Design

It’s no surprise that during times of economic uncertainty, many companies turn to organization design as a key to bolstering against environmental…

Simplify: The Most Important Leadership Skill

An entire industry has been built around emulating great leaders. It began with the Greek philosopher Plutarch around 100 AD, who wrote The Lives of…

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Why Structural Changes Don’t Improve Execution

Margins are thinning, decisions are made at a glacial pace and growth is beginning to slow while competitors are gaining ground. The CEO assembles…

Rewards as a Change Accelerator

Being a leader in an organization going through a major transformation is no easy task. Neither is being a follower. While at some level, employees…

Does Your Succession Plan Reflect the Future Needs of Your Business?

Succession planning should flow from the strategy and follow the same guiding principles. It’s that time again to update your succession plan. Where…

Ten Workforce Planning Practices That Leading Companies Use to Their Competitive Advantage

With the evolution of business models and organizations at a pace never seen before, workforce planning has emerged as a key capability to ensure…