http://blogs.humancapitalinstitute.org/leadership Just another Blogs.humancapitalinstitute.org weblog Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:01:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 2101230http://www.feedburner.com 7:30 a.m. I'm at the Hyatt in Cambridge, MA overlooking the Charles River with teams of students rowing to perfect their stroke and timing for competition. Just down the river Boston is coming to life as thousands flood the city to start their day. Joining me this morning are roughly ... http://blogs.humancapitalinstitute.org/leadership/2008/09/30/live-from-the-onboarding-socialization-innovation-tour/ Globally organizations are struggling to develop the leaders they need to thrive. In the U.S., between half and three quarters of senior managers are due to retire by 2010. The world watched as analysts, shareholders and employees monitored attentively the succession management at Microsoft earlier this year as Bill Gates ... http://blogs.humancapitalinstitute.org/leadership/2008/08/14/top-team-succession-management-impacting-sustainability/ I caught an interesting BusinessWeek VIDEO: "Being Entrepreneurial in Hard Times- Thinking out of the box isn't enough". In it, John Byrne, Executive Editor of BusinessWeek Magazine sat down with executive coaches, Marshall Goldsmith and Steven Berglas to talk about entrepreneurs and how they can make a difference within corporations. Well ... http://blogs.humancapitalinstitute.org/leadership/2008/08/13/the-entrepreneur-in-the-dinosaur/ I am truly excited for the Olympic Games that kicked off today in Beijing.  I will be cheering on the athletes from my living room in the coming weeks, but was fortunate to spend time in Beijing last summer as they were ramping up for the games.  While every city ... http://blogs.humancapitalinstitute.org/leadership/2008/08/08/the-beijing-olympics/ The global economy driven by knowledge workers is increasingly reliant on virtual teams collaborating within and across organizations to gain or sustain competitive advantage. Best practices of virtual collaboration are continuously being defined and adapted as new technologies are developed enabling increasing efficiency. Yet, our understanding of virtual team dynamics ... http://blogs.humancapitalinstitute.org/leadership/2008/08/07/new-leadership-required-virtual-teams/   Leadership Guru and Talent Champion Tom Peters takes on Healthcare in his latest blog: Dispatches from the NEW WORLD of WORK. With all the passion and fortitude for which he has come to be known, after a couple of rants- Tom provides us another of his signature lists of facts/thoughts ... http://blogs.humancapitalinstitute.org/leadership/2008/07/30/wow-tom%e2%80%99s-taking-on-healthcare/ "Welcome NEW LEADER! Here’s your office- I'll let you get settled in and come back to take you to lunch to talk about how you’re going to take us to the next level in the marketplace and what you had done with the rest of this morning to get us ... http://blogs.humancapitalinstitute.org/leadership/2008/07/24/productive-leadership-on-day-one/ We are told at an early age to "follow the leader", I recall playing a game by the same name as a child. Now when I hear this refrain I get an image in my head- the scene from Mel Brooks classic film: History of the World: Part I. The ... http://blogs.humancapitalinstitute.org/leadership/2008/07/11/followership-development/ Welcome! This is the first of many posts to the little piece of the web we have carved out to further the discussion and thought leadership around everything involving Talent Leadership. Distinguishing Degrees of Leadership: Traditionally business schools, driven by the MBA degree, have created a concept of business leadership stemming from training ... http://blogs.humancapitalinstitute.org/leadership/2008/06/30/distinguishing-degrees-of-leadership/