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Six Great Books To Read This Year

talent development Growing Your Career Books

I am proud to say that one New Year’s resolution I have followed is to read more books. At the beginning of the year, I made a list of a lot of books that I wanted to jump into but did not read because of the usual

Growing Your Career - Inventing A Job Is Better Than Finding One

Career Management Growing Your Career

I re-watched the movie The Social Network yesterday. For those of you who have not seen it, the movie is about the launch of Facebook and centers around two lawsuits that Eduardo Saverin and the twins Cameron and

Want To Win The Talent War? Hire Overqualified Candidates

talent war overqualified candidates

The biggest recruiting challenge today is filling the critical open positions that will help your organization continue to grow and allow your teams the ability to seize on marketplace opportunities. I understand that

Leadership Lessons: Admit When You Are Wrong

Leadership

I had the great opportunity to give the devotional to the C3G, a career ministry at Northpoint Community Church (the incredible Andy Stanley is the Pastor). I decided to forego the expected inspirational address on

Leadership Lessons – What I Learned From Our Moonshot Leadership Event

Leadership Moonshot Leadership

Leadership is about having a vision, being able to inspire others about a vision, and finding a way to mobilize all of the resources that are on hand to make that vision become a reality. Leaders can be bold and

Talent Development Advice – Use My Beatles Formula To Build Great Teams

talent development Great Teams

Building a high-performance team can be challenging. You want to stack it with “A Players,” but you may end up with too many delegators and not enough doers. You can always find an assessment to help with the

Interesting Trends in Executive Search – Some That You May Not Expect

Culture Fit, Executive Search Talent Assessment

I recently had a conversation with Terry Price, our new CMP Senior Consultant, about what interesting trends in executive search he has seen over the past five years. Terry knows what he is talking about. He just joined

Outplacement Advice – Everyone Has A Skill Stack and Should Learn How To Use It

Outplacement Skill Stacking

I was invited by the SHRM-Atlanta Rising Leaders (HR professionals 35 and under) to give a presentation on Skill Stacking. The Rising Leader Committee Chair, Ebonee Younger, told me that several members of her group

Learn How the KonMari Method Can Help Your Professional Life

KonMari

It seems that KonMari is all the rage these days, mainly due to the wildly popular program “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo” television series on Netflix. I went back into my archives to pull up a LinkedIn article I wrote

HR Career Advice - Be The Man (or Woman) In The Arena

HR Career

Last week I caught up on an episode of the Tim Ferris Show podcast where the host had an intriguing interview with LeBron James and his trainer/recovery specialist, Mike Mancias, about the fitness training, nutrition,