More Free Agents in the Philippines?
An article this week in HumanResources highlights the growing interest in freelancing among Filipino millennials. This creates a potential problem for business leaders in the Philippines, if the best and brightest people want to leave the corporate world and work for themselves, but it also creates some great opportunities for companies in the Philippines and […]
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- Apr, 05, 2018
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Apr, 05, 2018
Forced Rankings Lead to Unforced Errors
Conversations about forced rankings and the use of the bell curve in performance reviews are bubbling up again. During the last month — in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Manila — we heard people debating the pros and cons of this approach. Let’s be clear: the only “pro” is that lazy managers can use it to […]
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- Apr, 02, 2018
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Grab Ahold of the Change
When businesses go through a big change, such as a merger or acquisition, they tend to focus on things like the financial reasons for doing so, the challenges of blending their technologies, and the potential fight with government regulators. Sometimes, their people get lost in the shuffle. Earlier this week, Grab and Uber announced that […]
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- Mar, 29, 2018
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If Everybody is Special…
…then nobody is. Yes, The Incredibles got it right. A speaker at last week’s Talent Management Asia 2018 conference in Manila raised this point, and it sparked a lot of conversation and note-scribbling across the audience. One of the most important things you do as a leader is provide performance feedback. At the same time, […]
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- Mar, 26, 2018
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Taking the “U” Out of VUCA
It was 25 years ago that the term VUCA entered our business vocabulary, and the authors of that book identified a new reality rather than a simple change. In situations that are characterized by volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) conditions, it becomes necessary to structure organizations in such a way that will meet the […]
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- Mar, 22, 2018
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