Talent: what REALLY matters
By Geoff Callard au.linkedin.com/pub/geoff-callard/7/160/9 The ‘Talent Management’ industry is a recent phenomenon – and it does not bear up under scrutiny. There is no evidence to suggest that it helps organisations succeed and it ignores the need to take a deeper, systemic look at the best ways to develop people into consistently high performers. […]
The weakness of hierarchies
The linear hierarchical structure has, almost without exception, become the only type of structure used in organisations. The entrenchment of line-based management in modern organisations reflects the conviction that productivity is an outcome of time-and-motion efficiency. Enterprises invest heavily in increasing motion, compressing time and utilising tools such as fish-bone diagrams, decision trees, organisation charts, […]