Comments on: Hiring a Targeted Innovator Requires Bold Approaches

By: How Google Became the #3 Most Valuable Firm by Using People Analytics to Reinvent HR | enes bahadır

Thu, 02 May 2013 13:41:03 +0000

[...] and you simply can’t maximize innovations unless you are capable of recruiting and retaining innovators. And even then, you must provide them with great managers and an environment that supports [...]

By: Bold Approaches for Successfully Retaining Every Innovator – Part 1 | Dr. John Sullivan | Professor, Corporate Speaker and Advisor

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:59:18 +0000

[...] them. In a previous related article, I highlighted how you can successfully hire innovators (http://www.ere.net/2013/02/18/hiring-a-targeted-innovator-requires-bold-approaches/). But that knowledge alone isn’t sufficient because you have to constantly work to retain these [...]

By: How Google Is Using People Analytics to Completely Reinvent HR | Namely Blog

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:24:37 +0000

By: Innovation HR: here’s a brainy approach

Innovation HR: here’s a brainy approach — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:13:07 +0000

By: How Google Is Using People Analytics to Completely Reinvent HR

How Google Is Using People Analytics to Completely Reinvent HR — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:04:33 +0000

By: Bold Approaches for Successfully Retaining Every Innovator, Part 1 of 2 - ERE.net

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:58:52 +0000

[...] innovators, a primary option is recruiting them. In a previous related article, I highlighted how you can successfully hire innovators. But that knowledge alone isn’t sufficient because you have to constantly work to retain [...]

By: Google has the only HR function on the planet that is managed based on “people analytics” | @RBG13 Blog

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:37:16 +0000

By: » How Google Became the #3 Most Valuable Firm by Using People Analytics to Reinvent HR » SourceMob

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:44:10 +0000

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By: logan branjord

logan branjord — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:00:13 +0000

I agree with dropping the word "fit" as an industry term. I'm tired of hearing it too! Freelance Anything

By: Recruiting Innovation Talent: Finding the Math Surgation in the Haystack « MRTplus

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:49:33 +0000

[...] In his post-CoDev article published on recruiting industry community site, ERE.net, Dr. Sullivan lists 30 specific actions to consider: “Hiring a Targeted Innovator Requires Bold Approaches“ [...]

By: Logan Meece

Logan Meece — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:56:55 +0000

@ Dr. Sullivan. Thank you for the article…some good advise. But it seems like it’s just best practice and nothing really too ‘bold’. And as a borderline Gen Y professional that is stereotyped as feeling ‘entitled’…this seems like pretty similar treatment.

By: Keith Halperin

Keith Halperin — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:00:43 +0000

@ Dr. Sullivan. Thank you. ISTM that your statement “Almost everyone agrees on the value of innovators” is true for those whose position or work isn’t negatively impacted by that innovator and his/her innovations. Consider this: virtually all parties have some vested interest in the status quo, however dysfunctional it may be. The higher the level of the person overseeing the status quo, the likelier they are to be negatively impacted by the innovator, unless they’re using the innovator to further their own gains. As they said in the ’70′s “The personal IS political.” In other words, if you bring someone in to seriously shake things up, *they should have some powerful allies supporting them.

As has been previously mentioned elsewhere: are what you state facts or opinions? If they are facts, what evidence are they based on, and if opinions, why are they not stated as such?

@ Ken. Well-said. You should bring in the big-guns 3PRs (30% or more fees) to get people who’d never answer your internal recruiter’s calls/emails/tweets/etc. to respond, and to close them on offers they’d never otherwise accept. If you do it for this: it’s well worth every penny.

Cheers,

Keith

* Unless you’re playing a deeper game- you could bring in an innovator to be deliberately set up to fail, to increase your power in an “II told you so” type of arrangement, or if you played it very carefully, you could make sure that you get the credit if the innovator succeeds and they (or someone you don’t like/set up) takes the blame if they don’t…

By: Ken Forrester

Ken Forrester — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:15:21 +0000

Another option is to outsource this function to Industry specialized headhunters.