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  • Why Employees’ Opinions Matter in Talent Management

    Good leaders are assertive. They take charge, cut through the clutter, and make key business decisions with authority. While there may be conflict from employees about what the best path forward might be, the only thing worse than making a bad decision is not making one at all, which can happen when...
  • EMPLOYEE RETENTION: TOMORROW’S RECRUITING METRIC

    As HR is increasing its presence as a strategic part of the business, key performance indicators, or KPIs, are becoming a key part of the language for discussing how it is actually performing. Recruiting, in some ways, is actually easier to measure because it is very similar to sales: you either hav...
  • What Do High Performing Companies All Have in Common? Happy Emp

    The link between employee satisfaction and productivity is simpler than you think. Posted by Stephen Spiegel on Dec 6, 2017 9:00:00 AM Every year, Glassdoor compiles a list of the “Best Places to Work.” The good people over at Glassdoor measure the quantity, quality, an...
  • HR Analysts: Unleash Your Inner Storyteller

    by John Boudreau, December 5, 2017 Telling a story is well-recognized as essential to HR analytics and acknowledges that “insight” is at the top of the data analytics pyramidafter data becomes information. HR analytics systems even offer pre-programmed storylines w...
  • Could Obscure Investments work for you?

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  • Why Being Vulnerable at Work Can Be Your Biggest Advantage, Acc

    Brené Brown—research professor, bestselling author, and star of one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—was in an awkward spot. Speaking to 150 hedge fund managers in London, she was five minutes into her presentation on vulnerability and courage when one bold Brit rais...
  • The Most Valuable Lesson I've Learned as a CEO

    I was recently invited to join the CEO of a Silicon Valley tech company for a fireside chat at his annual global leadership summit. He's been interviewing other CEOs at the event for years as he and his team value hearing the perspectives, experiences, and best practices of other companies. He d...
  • Avoiding the Unintended Consequences of Casual Feedback

    A few years ago, a renowned consumer web company founder/CEO shared the following anecdote: One of the company's product teams had been working around the clock for weeks in order to hit a critical launch date. During the final product review, the CEO casually remarked that he would have preferred o...
  • Just Because You Said it, Doesn't Make it So

    Many years ago, prior to joining LinkedIn, I attended an all-hands where a senior executive was addressing our team. The executive knew the company, was well-respected, and was an excellent public speaker -- essentially all of the raw materials necessary to motivate the audience to take action. On ...
  • What Makes a Truly Great Product Great

    Roughly five months ago, my responsibilities at LinkedIn expanded to include directly overseeing product. Consumer web product development has long been a passion of mine and was one of the reasons I was initially hired as CEO, so I was excited about the opportunity. My overall objective for the te...