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, […]