Interesting People

Do You Know How to Start and End a Conversation?

Jodi Glickman’s book Great on The Job is focused on new or soon to be new graduates and what they can do to ensure their career starts with some positive first steps. Talent management is about great conversations, and this book is full of tips for individuals to make great conversations happen that will help move them towards professional success. This is the first in a series of posts that will end in a full review of the book and an interview with the author – Jodi Glickman.

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Introversion (TED video) and trUYou

Talent management is about having conversations. It is also about people bringing self awareness to the conversation and using that information to have a more effective conversation. This post uses a TED talk about introversion to explore what we (leaders and followers) need to do to make this a rich conversation. Great talent management is enabled by self awareness.

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Book Review: Steve Jobs Biography (by Walter Isaacson)

Steve Jobs is an interesting person, and his biography by Walter Isaacson is a great read at many levels. Here is a brief view of that book and 3 things I take away. Leadership development, talent management, self awareness through failure – it is all there.

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An Interview and Book Giveaway with Leadership Expert & Author David Baker

David C. Baker wrote a book to help new managers be successful. In it he shares lots of very practical advice for leading well and learning as you go. Leadership development and talent management (leveraging/developing your people) are part of being a leader, and this book does a nice job showing the practical steps of how a new manager can do it well. Here is my interview with the author and some reflections on the book.

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How long do you listen?

Listening is not the lost skill of leadership, but it tends to take a back seat to getting work done when things are moving fast. A recent speech by a brain expert reminded me how little listening doctors do in the course of diagnosing certain medical conditions. Leadership and getting most out of the talent of a team (talent management) is, in part, about listening.

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Leadership: 3 Keys To Building Culture

Leadership is about creating culture. Sometimes that gets lost in the mix when we look at large and complex organizations. There are great examples of how this looks in a startup, and INC. magazine highlighted some in their June 2011 issue. Here are three things I took away from the article.

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