In an HBR article titled The Big Idea: 21st-Century Talent Spotting, Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, senior advisor at global executives search firm Egon Zehnder and the author of “It’s Not the How or the What but the Who???, says the first era of talent spotting leaders were done based on their physical abilities. For instance, if you wanted [...]
NOTE: This article first appeared on LinkedIn in June 2014. There has been so much focus on Employee Happiness recently. There is even a National Workplace Happiness Survey Information Session coming up soon right here in Singapore to talk about – you guessed it – Workplace Happiness! Not too long ago, I came across a blog [...]
It was 1986. It was a cold January morning at Cape Canaveral. Engineers had been frantically preparing for the launch of the space shuttle Challenger. On board the space shuttle were 7 crew members. Just as in all previous launches, safety checks had to be done prior to the launch of the mission to ensure the [...]
Why do most teams and organisations under-perform? Even if you hired all the right people into your team, your team might still under-perform because of one reason. When I say “under-perform??? I mean the teams or organisations fail to perform their best beyond what they are already doing today. So what is the primary reason that [...]
This article first appeared in the the HR & Education Section of Singapore Business Review portal on 20 March 2013. http://sbr.com.sg/hr-education/commentary/top-3-secrets-high-performance-teams Productivity is a big buzzword everywhere today, and companies are always looking for ways to increase productivity through their employees. One effective way to increase productivity is for employers to look at creating high performance [...]
Recently in an article “Not All Leaders Are Created Equal" Dr Daniel Goleman cited a study that was conducted by Professor Groysberg and Nitin Nohria from Harvard on GE Alumini. As most of us probably know, GE is not only known for being an outstanding company, but it is also a “talent factory". This is evident [...]
Why do most teams and organisations under-perform? Even if you hired all the right people into your team, your team might still under-perform because of one reason. When I say “under-perform" I mean the teams or organisations fail to perform their best beyond what they are already doing today. So what is the primary reason that [...]
On 6th November 2014, I declared the old adage "Hire for Attitude but not aptitude" OFFICIALLY DEAD! I told a packed room of senior leadership and HR professionals that this old adage was no longer valid! And not a single person in the room objected to what I said. I spoke on the topic of Acquiring [...]
So far we have covered Culture, Attitude and Aptitude in our previous articles. The final piece of the CAAP® Foundation is PERSONALITY. If you missed the previous articles, read them here: Culture, Attitude, Aptitude So what is Personality and why is it so important? According to Peter Gray, a professor of psychology with the Boston College, [...]
The Guy Who Could Not Learn Many years ago, I hired a guy who had more than 10 years of working experience and all the relevant technical qualifications and certifications. He did well in the interviews but there was one particular area that I completely overlooked -- he worked almost exclusively by himself for most of [...]
