skills

Why 70% is a key metric for learning and development

The 70-20-10 rule represents, by percentage, how people actually learn and develop:  70% from job experiences, 20% from feedback and collaboration, and only 10% from courses and from reading. If 70% of learning happens on-the-job, what the employee can take back and use after the actual learning remains the most critical reinforcing loop for both the [...]

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When a small business should fear growth

A small company is a dynamic, creative place where it is necessary for people to take risks to build a new organization.  Leaders of small companies are visionaries and there are strong demands for innovation to do more with less and to bite off grand goals.  The people that work in small companies work around an assumed [...]

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It’s true, your boss is a psychopath – UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE?

From the weekly, always insightful, Boston Globe Ideas Section, I give you this week’s UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE [their capitalization, not mine].  This section usually provides a hodge-podge of nuggets from the social sciences.  This week’s lead: It’s true, your boss is a psychopath Watching the news some days, you’d think a lot of companies were run by [...]

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Low risk, low return human resources

My 11-odd-years in business and talent management consulting [the other 9 in marketing] have shown a few disturbing trends that I see from most poorly-run companies.  These type of organizations, across all industries, ascribe to, what they believe is a low risk strategy, but in reality it is a low return strategy for human resources: [...]

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Why Startups Should ALWAYS Compromise When Hiring? — Never!

Reading a blog on the venture capital website Start Up Hire called: Should Startups Compromise When Hiring? I found a reference to a blog Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer & Founder of Hubspot* and Onstartups.com, wrote, “Why Startups Should ALWAYS Compromise When Hiring?”. I posted a comment to the blog as I felt Start Up [...]

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Leading and managing

Managers manage. Leaders lead. Are these roles so different? A manager is charged to manage their resources against a budget.  Does this allow a manager to maximizing their talent, to cultivate creativity in their team, or to take risks?  The manager needs to deliver to their budget and align their resources to successfully enable their [...]

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