Creating a Magnetic Workforce

Recently, a senior talent leader and I were discussing how certain employees are asked by leaders to join teams based on the employee’s reputation from past work. Unlike some other employees, these employees are always in demand for the contributions they make. We described this quality as magnetism. I’ve had similar discussions with other talent professionals over…

Zappos’s Great Concept for Eliminating Managers — But Let’s Keep it Simple

Existing practices for managing, evaluating and rewarding employees are coming under attack, and for good reason. For the most part, they do not work. Just yesterday, I wrote a blog piece, Team-Based Performance Management, urging that team performance replace individual performance as the leading barometer of achievement and discussed how such an approach could work.…