Insights

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 […]

“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. The first differentiator of great HR leaders that we teach in our Talent Management Institute program is Business Junkie. We define that as both […]

At Consolidated Snacks, the product management team meets quarterly to review market share and revenue data for its 18 salty snack products. The team uses this data to allocate their limited marketing budget. They have also created a handful of guidelines to ensure that their investment decisions consistently reflect the company’s product management philosophy. Among […]

“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. Do behaviors matter? It’s an easy question to answer. Too easy. Ask an HR leader if a person’s behaviors are […]

A few years ago the book Fearless HR said that “the HR profession needs to speak with a strong point of view, a new confidence, perhaps even with swagger.” Swagger. It’s a great word, but likely not among the first 20 that you’d use to describe most HR leaders. Ideally it should be First, let’s […]