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Our President, Marc Effron, details how to have a transparent and positive conversation with a potential successor without promising them anything.

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. It’s the tired opening line in a LinkedIn post, the first slide in a consultant’s deck, or the hook in […]

It’s such a common scenario in talent reviews that we’ve even given it a name – upper right bias. That’s when managers place a strangely large percentage of their team in the high potential category, typically located in the upper right section of their potential tool. That upper right bias could be due to managers […]

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. Your Teams window brightens as an HR consultant appears breathlessly telling you about their consulting firm’s revolutionary discovery. This discovery […]

Introduction Our 2025 Critical Roles Report brings you global insights on how companies select and manage their highest value roles. As organizations increase their sophistication in talent management, their logical next step is to understand which roles add value, why and to ensure they derive value from those roles. Our research project asked how organizations […]

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. We do important, valuable work in HR, but it’s easy to confuse or overwhelm managers with our jargon and process […]

Somewhere above the intersection of high performers and high potentials exists a rare and exceptionally capable type of talent. Their contributions are five times, ten times, up to fifty times larger than the average employee. They’re so rare that you might not have one in your company. We know that they’re often found in creative […]

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. If you want to succeed in HR, you’ll get things done. You’ll get important things done. You’ll get trivial things […]

Introduction You might assume that a company renowned for its HR solutions would have all the answers when it comes to managing talent. But Workday’s journey reveals an important truth: even the most sophisticated technology must be matched with a human-centric and holistic Talent Philosophy. This case study explores how Workday, in partnership with the […]