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Recruiting Interviews: A Waste of Time?

by apogeebg on September 29, 2011

Now there’s something to ponder.  Kevin Wheeler[1], the President and Founder of Global Learning Resources, Inc. thinks so.  In his recent article, posted on ere.net on September 27, 2011, Mr. Wheeler feels that recruiting interviews are more about the ‘power and control’ on the part of the interviewer:  “Sometimes an interviewer has the power to [...]

Top-Company Performance Checklist

by apogeebg on June 27, 2011

We speak a lot around here about shared characteristics—behaviors—of top performers within individual cultures. A recently-released Seattle study takes a look at shared qualities among top performing companies in their quest to reach the pinnacle of their industries.

In its 2011 High-Performance Organizations Survey, Seattle’s Institute for Corporate Productivity ( i4cp), partnered with Human Resource Executive® to survey 914 business leaders from organizations representing companies of varied industries and sizes.

Among the key findings in Deloitte’s ‘Talent Edge 2020: Blueprints for the New Normal’ published in December, is the observation that ‘developing leaders and succession planning’ is currently a top concern—and will remain a top talent priority three years from now—at least for the 334 corporate executives who participated in the survey. This, added to [...]