Many organizations encourage their employees to volunteer outside of work or offer employee volunteer programs. For example, Novartis Pharmaceuticals hosts an annual Community Partnership Day (CPD) for its employees to offer services to local causes in the community while Booz Allen Hamilton encourages employees to volunteer 40 hours for any nonprofit organization through a Volunteer… Read more »
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Hogan Announces Independent Consultancies Team
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SIOP 2012 Speaker Schedule
5 Essentials of Execution
Companies invest countless man hours and billions of dollars every year in pursuit of one thing – the next big idea. However, what separates the most successful companies from their competitors often isn’t a better product, service, or business plan, but their ability to move quickly and efficiently from idea to implementation.
ABCs of Derailment
Over the course of several feedback sessions, I’ve noticed that the vast majority of individuals prefer the euphemism over-used strengths to derailers when speaking about results on the Hogan Development Survey. I hadn’t really put much thought to this phenomenon until I came across an article in Talent Management magazine by Anthony Gigliotti. He presents… Read more »
Why Nations Fail
Hogan and Chamorro-Premuzic argue that all large scale social phenomena—wars, economic disasters, etc.—can be explained in terms of personality. For individual lives, character is fate, and the fate of nations (and other organizations) depends on the character of the leaders. Put more simply, who is in charge really matters. When competent people direct organizations, the… Read more »
No Bull, Just the Basics
As unpatriotic as it sounds: I am not a huge fan of the presidential election cycle. It’s not that I don’t value the power I’m given to choose the leader of the free world, it’s just that I’m not much for the rhetoric, the 15-candidate free-for-all primary debates, or the lazy, only-sometimes-clever Saturday Night Live… Read more »
Five Essentials of Execution
1. The agenda to be executed should make sense to those who must execute it — people should be persuaded that the agenda is worth following.
The power of culture and engagement: an apple and its amazing story
Take a look at a company logo. What do you see? An image? A story? A brand? A way of living?
Bunga Bunga-Gate; The Final Act of the Berlusconi Show?
Yet again Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is facing another trial that is, as tradition has it, bursting with serious and scandalous allegations. The nature of these allegations is not really what is interesting about his story (though if you Google Bunga Bunga you will find plenty of details concerning the latest scandal); what is… Read more »