Why won’t my employees just do what I tell them? Why am I struggling to motivate my team? Why aren’t they giving me the performance I need? If any of these … Read more
Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Strategic Talent Leaders
The New Year is the perfect time to reexamine and refocus your talent efforts. The coming year will see a surge in economic growth, but it will occur in a … Read more
Are Your Emotions Preventing You From Making Great Hiring Decisions?
Hiring is like meeting a new guy or girl you like for the first time. This wonderful person walks into your office and the two of you make a perfect … Read more
Heidrick & Struggles Names New CEO, Abandons Sale Plans
International search firm Heidrick & Struggles has given up plans to sell the company and will remain an independent public company. The firm also … Read more
Let Me Tell You What a Good Recruiting Boss Is
I’ve had many recruiting bosses, sometimes in large organizations, sometimes in small. I’ve been privileged to have had a few who have been exceptionally … Read more
Advanced Items for Your Recruiting Agenda — What Should Google Do Next?
During the newly reinvigorated and exciting ERE conference, two attendees posed related but powerful questions to me. The first was “What advanced topics … Read more
Planning an Efficient and Effective Corporate Recruiting Function
Building a house, a building, or a department all starts out with a plan. Many of us, however, don’t heed those textbook ideas of how we should start. … Read more
This Hiring Formula Most Deserves Your Attention
I hear from talent acquisition leaders that they want a seat at the table. I ask: “What does that mean to you?” For an individual recruiter, it’s building … Read more
A Checklist to Help You Know If You’re Leading or Just Managing
The business world is full of managers. Even in the face of recent economic-fueled cutbacks and downsizing, managers remain in abundant supply. Yet despite … Read more
Need a Person to Run Your Recruiting Department? Hire an Entrepreneurial Manager
Entrepreneurship has been described as taking a blank piece of paper, with all its uncertainty, and then developing it into a work of art. Recruiting is … Read more
8 Traits of Successful Talent Leaders
What makes a person an outstanding talent leader? Is it the ability to set a vision, develop a strategy, or manage a budget? Or is it something much less … Read more
Fordyce Owner Names Ron Mester New CEO
When I started ERE Media, the parent company of The Fordyce Letter, back in October 1998, it was a labor of love. I was a 23-year-old, and spent every … Read more
Become a Better Leader: What You Can Learn From the Strangest Question I’ve Ever Been Asked
Someone asked me a question out of nowhere yesterday — in a restroom of all places — that took me aback. It got me thinking about a very … Read more
Have You Earned the Right to Lead?
Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them) Editor’s note: John Hamm explains in his new book, Unusually … Read more
Overconfidence and Business Success
Recently, an article by Kimberly Weisul called Why It’s Okay to Have a Delusional CEO ran on BNET.com. This article brought research conducted by … Read more
Recruiting, Redemption, and American Economic Viability
“We would like to live as we once did but history will not permit it.” –John F Kennedy I was instantly impressed by the tone. By the anger and edgy … Read more
Effective Leadership and Performance Optimization, Part 2: Developing a Culture of Performance
Recruiting is a tough business; an activity oriented phone- and Internet-based business where statistics indicate that nine out of ten new recruits don’t … Read more
Double Play – Effective Leadership and Performance Optimization, Part 1: Getting Your Team to Own Their Performance
When things wind down past mid-season in baseball, separating the teams in the pennant race from other teams is not a difficult task. It seems year after … Read more
Being A Good Leader In Tough Times
A CEO’s job is never an easy one. Whether in good times or bad, a successful CEO must remain a good leader for his or her employees and the company … Read more
Podcast: Greg Savage, Part 2
Yesterday, we posted Part 1 of the podcast with Greg Savage, where Savage shared with us about his new role with Firebrand Talent Search as well as … Read more