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Talentism Team
- May 24, 2016
- 30 min
It’s Just the Culture
You got five apes in a cage. You got a banana hanging by a string in the middle of the cage; you got some stairs going to the banana.
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Talentism Team
- Mar 9, 2016
- 14 min
The Myth of A-Players
When Apple announced they were opening retail locations in 2001, many experts didn’t give them a chance.
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Jeff Hunter
- Dec 3, 2015
- 3 min
A Different Future of Work
The mentality of leaders must shift from creating a place where they assume people need to show up, to a place where people want to show up.
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Jeff Hunter
- Dec 3, 2015
- 5 min
But How Will We Manage?
They will fight the inevitable and increasing chaos and disorder of our scale, and bring clarity and evolution to the people they help.
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Talentism Team
- Nov 3, 2015
- 7 min
Most Interviews Are a Waste of Time: How Hiring Managers Can Improve Their ROI
The data are clear: it’s easier to win in Vegas than hire the right person.
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Trevor Hunter
- Oct 30, 2015
- 14 min
Finding Greatness
Deeper analysis reveals that context is, in fact, inseparable from performance – it is the thing being performed.
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Talentism Team
- Oct 22, 2015
- 6 min
How Pervasive is the Amazon School of Management?
Retooling a century-old paradigm is not the way forward.
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Talentism Team
- Oct 8, 2015
- 6 min
Why Recruiting Bets Don’t Pay Off
Most managers intuitively know that hiring people is one of the most important decisions they can make.
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Talentism Team
- Sep 25, 2015
- 4 min
The Disengagement Epidemic
As polls after polls show, millions are unhappy at work.
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Talentism Team
- Aug 7, 2015
- 5 min
Make the Most of Talent Markets with Social Proof
It’s easy to poke fun at LinkedIn’s Endorsements feature.
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Jeff Hunter
- Jul 26, 2015
- 8 min
So What Do You Do?
In the 16th century, your livelihood meant more than your job. It was the course of your life, including your conduct and behavior.
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Jeff Hunter
- Jul 20, 2015
- 4 min
Clarity When Confrontation Doesn’t Feel Right
“The person I work for/with is terrible. They are telling me one thing and doing another. I just don’t trust them anymore.”
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Talentism Team
- Jul 13, 2015
- 5 min
What It Means to Design for People
You create a design that from the very outset is optimized for what the people in the organization are like—their passions, talents, beliefs
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Jeff Hunter
- Jul 3, 2015
- 7 min
Design for People
Humans are cooperative social animals, and executing almost anything interesting involves getting people to work together.
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Jeff Hunter
- Jun 29, 2015
- 6 min
New Business Playbook: Strategizing
If thinking of people as undifferentiated cogs leads to undifferentiated strategies, then it isn’t difficult to imagine the opposite...
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Jeff Hunter
- Jun 15, 2015
- 10 min
Competitive Advantage? Envision You
In order to create, you must first visualize.
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Trevor Hunter
- Jun 8, 2015
- 5 min
Evaluating “What is a Playbook?”
This week we’ll be analyzing the claims made about decision making in Talentism’s recent post “What is a ‘Playbook’?”.
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Jeff Hunter
- Jun 5, 2015
- 8 min
Elements of the Business Playbook
Just because someone is winning doesn’t mean their playbook is unique, or better than the loser’s.
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Jeff Hunter
- May 31, 2015
- 4 min
What is a “Playbook”?
What exactly is a “playbook”? And why do we need a new one?
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