OUR IDEAS

In our analysis of over 90 failed strategic initiatives and missed plans at growth companies, more than 80% of CEOs blamed bad hiring.

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.

When Apple announced they were opening retail locations in 2001, many experts didn’t give them a chance.

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.

They will fight the inevitable and increasing chaos and disorder of our scale, and bring clarity and evolution to the people they help.

The data are clear: it’s easier to win in Vegas than hire the right person.

Deeper analysis reveals that context is, in fact, inseparable from performance – it is the thing being performed.

Retooling a century-old paradigm is not the way forward.

Most managers intuitively know that hiring people is one of the most important decisions they can make.

As polls after polls show, millions are unhappy at work.

It’s easy to poke fun at LinkedIn’s Endorsements feature.

In the 16th century, your livelihood meant more than your job. It was the course of your life, including your conduct and behavior.

“The person I work for/with is terrible. They are telling me one thing and doing another. I just don’t trust them anymore.”

You create a design that from the very outset is optimized for what the people in the organization are like—their passions, talents, beliefs

Humans are cooperative social animals, and executing almost anything interesting involves getting people to work together.

If thinking of people as undifferentiated cogs leads to undifferentiated strategies, then it isn’t difficult to imagine the opposite...

In order to create, you must first visualize.

This week we’ll be analyzing the claims made about decision making in Talentism’s recent post “What is a ‘Playbook’?”.

Just because someone is winning doesn’t mean their playbook is unique, or better than the loser’s.

What exactly is a “playbook”? And why do we need a new one?