On Wednesday this week the world learned that Steve Jobs has announced his resignation as CEO of Apple. The timing was a surprise, but not the idea that this might be coming: it is well known that Jobs has had health challenges for some time, and had even stepped back from active duties a few times in the [...]

Concerns regarding leadership capacity and development have been heightened recently by increasing globalization, business complexity, and the impending retirement of vast numbers of seasoned leaders. This leadership gap has led an increasing number of organizations to place renewed emphasis on the development and acquisition of emerging leaders ― particularly Generation X and Millennials ― who [...]

We are in the midst of the so-called “Dog Days of Summer” – which according to Wikipedia is a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to the time period when Sirius the “Dog Star” (at least back in those days) rose just before or at the same time as sunrise. The Romans apparently believed that [...]

Taleo Research Recommends postings describe and link to some of the best content – articles, blog posts, research, and more – that we have come across in recent weeks. We focus of course on Talent Management and its particular practice areas, but at times also include items of more general interest to HR professionals and [...]

Recent research reveals front-line leaders aren’t nearly as effective as they think they are, and their blind spots may be causing problems. Such blind spots are one of five ways that organizations are failing to develop emerging leaders, according to the research paper by Development Dimensions International (DDI) and Taleo Research, Emerging Leaders: Build Versus Buy. The problem [...]

Reskilling, skill shortages, creativity, leadership development, succession planning, Boomer retirement, finding the best talent – are these issues on your talent agenda?  They should be.  In this week’s Taleo Research Recommends, we’ve gathered a diverse collection of research recommendations, reports by Deloitte, the Economist, and IBM, that are surprisingly aligned in their findings.   Two [...]

In the last posting in our series on developing emerging leaders, Leadership Development Best Practices, I described what a modern, sophisticated blended learning approach to leadership development can involve. I walked through each component of the model, and described some of the interrelationships between them. But it was all in the abstract, so what is [...]