RECOMMENDATION Engineer and consultant Pascal Dennis’s Toyota sensei (teachers) instructed him on how to summarize the Lean production system succinctly yet elegantly. Dennis starts with the history and purpose of Lean, which is to do more with...
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Recommendation Citi learning executives Tiffany Abinsay and Peter Fox helped the global bank make the transition from offering a fragmented, disorganized learning experience to providing one that’s unified – and increasingly popular. Citi’s new...
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Author Alec MacKenzie has updated the mother of all time-management books, which first hit the shelves in 1972. Despite the fact that time management has become a multi-million-dollar industry since this title was originally published, The Time...
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The world of work is undergoing rapid change. Companies can no longer solely rely on the government and private educational institutions to train the people they can then hire. Instead, the private sector has started to invest heavily in...
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In a time when job security, employment opportunities and career contentment are uncertain, this step-by-step article provides a road map to success for anyone who wants to work in a new field but lacks experience. Along with his personal case...
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Your strategic planning must incorporate the people who work for you, says author Edward L. Gubman in a book that gets high marks for its easy, bullet-point organization, but scores in the middle of the curve in terms of originality. Grubman...
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You don’t need to be a genius to figure out that your company’s performance depends on your employees. But Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas and Elizabeth Craig maintain that having the right people is only part of the formula for achieving...
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Talent is the key to business success, but how do companies recognize it and develop it? Human resources expert Jacqueline Davies and international life coach Jeremy Kourdi understand that many employees possess nascent talent and offer a guide...
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Talent management is a fascinating topic full of potential for dramatic motivational speaking and cutesy pop psychology: Learn to manage talent, excite the troops, spread the vision, enlist the worthy, prepare the next generals and make a tidy...
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Each company has an “employment brand” – the way prospective candidates, employees and former employees perceive it. More than ever, companies must attend to that brand by building a culture that attracts top talent. The employment market is...
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Digital transformation calls for more than operational expertise, and organizations are increasingly recognizing the need for the specialized skills and knowledge of transformation management practitioners. New or prospective transformation...
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Kimberly Janson, a human resources professional with 20 years of experience in more than 40 countries, explains how to strengthen your human resources function. Every organization’s well-being depends on “getting the people piece right” – and she...
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