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Posted by: Jon Ingham | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 22:11
I'm at the Economist's Talent Management Summit today. It's been trailed, and I've trailed it, as being focused on the mobile, agile workforce. I have to say that I've not seen much about it this far (and it's now lunch time).We did have an absolutely great kick off from Will Hutton, but that was about the new mobile, agile business - not the workforce. And after that, most of the focus has actually been pretty transactional. We need to engage our people, yes, but we need to go beyond this too.So I was pleased to listen to a short input from the Economist's Kenneth...
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Posted by: Jon Ingham | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 21:54
A lot of The Economist's Talent Management Summit focused on changes in the world of work. Dean Royles (Head of NHS Employers) even nicked Peter Cheese's phrase about work, the workforce and the workplace. Here are my highlights:Firstly, Will Hutton provided an excellent context for this change. The great reset is being caused by the depth and length of the current recessionary period. This of course varies by country - Will is upbeat about the Eurozone but pretty pessimistic about China.In the UK, we've got to deal with ineffective innovation, the dysfunctionality...
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Posted by: Dr. Ines Wichert | Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 11:27
At the start of April 2013, Vince Cable, the UK's Business Secretary, said the introduction of UK quotas for women on boards is now a possibility given the recent stagnation of the number of women being appointed to board roles, as highlighted by research from Cranfield University. What is happening? With all the media attention, awards ceremonies and the public commitment from CEOs and chairmen, shouldn’t this movement have gained its own momentum by now? Apparently not. In the UK, numbers are creeping up slowly for female board appointments (and have now stagnated) and are moving even...
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Posted by: Jon Ingham | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 21:58
One of my favourite conferences is The Economist's talent management summit which I spoke at last year and this blog has been supporting for three years now (see my competition to attend and blog for me at this year's event).As usual this year there'll be the normal range of great quality sessions. For example, one I'd be keen to see is Data and Smarter Decision-Making: Making Analytics Work for Your Business featuring Marlon Sullivan from Abbott Laboratories and Matthew Jeffery now at SAP. That's partly because Matthew is always such good value but mainly because I think the link...
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Posted by: James Chambers | Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 07:45
On the London trading floor of one of the big US banks, a few of the senior staff have taken to raising up their desks so they can stand up to work. Rumour has it, the first desk-raiser at the bank had a bad back. Those on the floor who followed him simply mistook this injury-motivated furniture re-arrangement for profit-hungry machismo. Whatever the real reason, there is little surprise that this trend has come from the US, or that it should make its way to the UK via a US company in London. Yet there is also talk of a string of senior lawyers opting for these convertible desks at one...
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Posted by: Deborah Perry P... | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 11:07
On any given day a typical conversation at say, 10:45am, at Google might go like this….Googler: Gee, I’m just not feeling all that creative right now.Manager: Why don’t you go out for a bike ride along the San Francisco Bay?Googler: Good idea… (Thinks to herself: should I jump on a bike, rollerblade, or test out one of those new skateboards that Google just bought?)Manager (10:46am): Cool. Just give me a call if you don’t plan to come back to the office today.While many of us are sick and tired about hearing about how great it is to work at Google, here’s the bottom line: Google...
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Posted by: James Chambers | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 18:05
When Obama talked of 'working folks' and 'folks coming here legally' in his latest state of the union address it signalled the US president's return to one of his favourite terms of address. The word 'folk' was notably missing from his second inauguration speech in January, but had been previously used with such abandon during the re-election campaign that it became an object of comment for more than one political watcher. Looking back at Obama's track record, folks actually missed out on the first three of his state of the union speeches, before making its debut in the 2012...
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Posted by: Sara Mosavi | Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 11:10
Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi's job is never done. Chairwoman and CEO at PepsiCo, one of the giants in the food and beverages industry, she's also director at the Consumer Goods Forum, a global industry network and board member at the World Economic Forum, an international organisation. During her career, Ms Nooyi has held a range of posts from corporate strategy to serving as Chief Financial Officer. She's also sat in many a boardroom, including those of Motorola Solutions and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Together with Marjorie Scardino, the first woman CEO of a FTSE 100 company, they...
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Posted by: Jean Martin | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 16:34
There is strong agreement that diversity and inclusion (D&I) is good for business: CEB research finds that in a diverse workforce where the perspectives of diverse and non-diverse employees are valued, employee performance improves by 12 percent and intent to stay by 20 percent. In fact, focusing on diversity alone is insufficient, as it only generates about a 6.5 percent bump in these workforce outcomes.
However, in spite of multi-year investments, organisations haven’t made as much progress with D&I as they’d like, especially in the leadership ranks. Questions about who’...
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Posted by: William Baker | Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 22:53
My co-author Michael and I don’t just believe that business leaders can learn a lot from great artists. We believe that business leaders, and indeed leaders in all fields, are themselves artists. The poet Shelley was right when he said that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” But we take it one step further and say that legislators, in the sense of leaders and managers, are the unacknowledged poets of the world. The emotional and intellectual work that an artist does when he or she makes a sculpture, painting, or a piece of music is identical to...
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Jon Ingham's highlights of Economist Events' Talent Management Summit - Part 2
Posted by: Jon Ingham | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 22:11
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The new rules of employee engagement
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Are raised desks going to be the next office trend to sweep the Square Mile?
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Could lexicon be Obama's international legacy?
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Progress toward gender balance in the boardroom still slow
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