The Catch 22 of What I Do – A Friday Funny If You Read to the End

By Michelle Malay Carter on November 9, 2007 

I got some second-hand feedback from an executive?at a global corporation, “I don’t appreciate the sarcastic tone [of Mission Minded],” said “Tracey”. Tracey viewed the site after my chronically underutilized friend, who appreciates the site immensely, recommended it.? My friend said that Tracey has had the unusual experience of being fully utilized her entire career. […]

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Corporate Collateral Damage – One in Five Employees is Underutilized

By Michelle Malay Carter on November 8, 2007 

Squandered Potential Having partnered with managers to assess the potential of over 6000 employees, our data shows that about one in five employees is capable of performing higher level work than that called for by their current role. The Perilous Road to the Executive Suite Young, high potentials are chronically underutilized as their problem solving […]

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Integrated Organization Design and Leadership Approach Seen as Frequently as a Ninja Parade

By Michelle Malay Carter on November 3, 2007 

Seventy nine percent?of your?employees called – they are disengaged and waiting for their executive leadership to take systems-level approach to organization design and managerial leadership. A science-based framework already exists, but it’s been about as visible as a ninja parade.? Why?? The pain of the “blame the employee” model is not yet greater than the […]

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Talent Management Systems Drive Talent Hoarding Not Talent Promotion

By Michelle Malay Carter on October 31, 2007 

It?is not too much complex work that burns out employees, but rather too much unchallenging work that leaves employees cynical and opting for self-employment. Most Talent Management Systems are Designed to Hoard Talent, Not Promote It Unfortunately, when you are under employed but conscientious, most self-interested managers reward you, their diligent, go-to employee,?with more of […]

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Succession Planning’s Missing Link – Lunch with Your Boss’s Boss

By Michelle Malay Carter on October 30, 2007 

Institutionalizing lunch with the boss’s boss would be to talent management what the Chia Pet was to holiday gift exchanges – an annual, inexpensive, one-size-fits all way to get the job done. The difficulty in spotting high potentials is that?their managers quite frequently don’t like them which, in turn, steers the manager’s manager’s perception of […]

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Work Isn’t Stressful; Adapting Is

By Michelle Malay Carter on October 28, 2007 

Work is a psychological imperative for humans.? If we are all wired to work, why can?t organizations find or retain talent?? Workers themselves say they leave organizations due to stress, according to a study by Watson Wyatt. We are?boring our workers away! Is work inherently stressful?? No, boring work is inherently stressful, and two categories […]

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Employees are Babies Throwing Tantrums Says HR, Their Benevolent Caretaker

By Michelle Malay Carter on October 26, 2007 

If there are any HR Professional readers in my audience, please fight with me on this one!? Say it isn’t so. On a post lamenting the fact the HR gets no respect, Karthik raised my blood pressure with the following comment on Gautam Ghosh’s management consulting blog (emphasis mine): “The employee is to be looked […]

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Teambuilding – A Friday Funny

By Michelle Malay Carter on October 26, 2007 

I can hear the chorus now… -Been there.? -Done that.? -Have the T-shirt. Gather some team members, click here,?and do some bonding around this 30 second video clip. Thanks to Frank Roche at KnowHR for the heads up on this one!? In his words, “Friends don’t let friends do teambuilding.”

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Will Executives Listen to their Employees via Towers Perrin?

By Michelle Malay Carter on October 24, 2007 

You’ve heard the phrase, living well is the best revenge?? I must say it does bring a smile to my face when organizations pay me, as an external consultant, several times what I was making as an internal consultant?to say the same things they reviled me for saying while working inside an organization. In that […]

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Talent Management – Finding Our Way without a Map

By Michelle Malay Carter on October 20, 2007 

My family will be eating food on a toothpick for breakfast, lunch, and dinner this week, as no one showed at my party last night.? Could it have been the directions? It seems organizations are having the same issue with Talent Management.? Everyone wants to go there, but without a common language and total-systems model […]

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