Management
HR Management is the strategic approach to effective organization management. In this section find the latest news and theories making waves in Fortune 500 companies.
Immediately Applied Theory for Enhanced Performance
February 03 by William Cohen, Ph.D.Peter Drucker stressed application, rather than theory . . . again and again. Frequently he concluded his seminars with something like this: "Don’t tell me what a wonderful seminar I gave or...
The Datafication of HR: Graduating from Metrics to Analytics
August 27 by HR Exchange Network EditorGlobal competition for talent, outsourcing labor, compliance legislation, remote workers, aging populations – these are just a few of the daunting challenges faced by HR organizations today. Y...
Complexity Bites
July 23 by Jeff DavidsonComplexity in every day life dooms the unwary HR professional. Consider the following: virtually every luxury car commercial in the last 20 years has highlighted the ability of the driver to merely...
Employing Drucker's "New Certainties"
June 16 by William Cohen, Ph.D.Drucker wrote that the purpose of strategy is to enable an organization to achieve its desired results in an unpredictable environment. Contrary to what "everybody knows," strategy is not about achiev...
The World's Greatest Independent Consultant
May 16 by William Cohen, Ph.D.Consulting has always fascinated me. I think maybe this started with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous character, Sherlock Holmes, who was according to Doyle, a "Consulting Detective." Here was...
What Chinese Marketers Want to Know about Drucker
March 19 by William Cohen, Ph.D.China is a major trading partner with many countries and its marketing prowess continues to grow. I have been fortunate in that a number of my books on leadership and marketing have been translated...
Job Descriptions: Painfully Useless Administrivia or Strategic Tool?
March 17 by Conseula Di PrimioDo you have an up-to-date job description? Do all the employees in your organization have up-to-date job descriptions? Unless you work in a regulated industry that requires job descriptions for al...
All About Lunch
January 08 by Jeff DavidsonHow many leisurely lunches do you take in the course of a week or a month? What do I mean by a leisurely lunch? The kind where you leave your desk and go elsewhere, like a restaurant or lunch counte...
How to Get It Done: Four Drucker-Like Action Steps
January 07 by William Cohen, Ph.D.Drucker conducted his consulting mainly by asking questions. Many of his clients found this a bit disconcerting at first, though most found it extremely useful once they got used to it. As one clien...
The Importance of Learning to Say "No"
January 02 by Jeff DavidsonThere is a direct relationship between the size of your organization and the number of requests you receive to attend or support functions. On the personal side, with your uncle’s retirement p...
Six secrets to maximize employee value during a merger
December 10 by David BraunEvery merger or acquisition brings challenges of integration, especially when it involves combining two workforces. For many employees, the announcement of a merger brings about feelings of fear and...
How CHROs Deliver Business Impact
November 21 by HR Exchange Network EditorTalent. Everyone knows that it can give your organization a competitive edge. But whose job is it? Does it belong to the CEO? Or to HR? The answer is both. The responsibility for talent is not a chi...