Requisite Weekend Transformation? How Are You Framing Your Organizational Issues?

By Michelle Malay Carter on November 12, 2008 

Folklore has it that Elliott Jaques, the author of the meta model, Requisite Organization, used to say you could transform an organization over the weekend by restructuring an organization to align with the requisite model. Requisite Organization Design Principles That means, among other things,?re-aligning as necessary to meet the three requisite organization design criteria. Conceptually […]

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When To Overhire – An Exception to My Rule

By Michelle Malay Carter on May 12, 2008 

Talent Pipeline Development My posts last week on over hiring stirred many comments. Thank you! Bloggers love comments. And you, my astute readers, sniffed out the one instance when you might choose to over hire – when you are preparing for growth. A Conscious Choice not an Ignorant One However, overhiring as a conscious choice […]

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What to Do with Our Cognitive Surplus? A Friday Funny

By Michelle Malay Carter on May 8, 2008 

Paul Hebert at Fistful of Talent does a nice job of summarizing the issue of “cognitive surplus” that he ran across on Barry L. Ritholtz’s The Big Picture blog.? One in Five Employees is Underutilized These ideas line up nicely with my posts this week and our research that says 1 in 5 employees is […]

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Hiring Advice for Seth Godin – Beware of Six Month Syndrome

By Michelle Malay Carter on May 8, 2008 

Working Interviews Kris Dunn at HR Capitalist resurfaced an idea put forth by Seth Godin a while back – when interviewing a candidate, rather than chatting, you should make them work. Copywriters should copywrite. Widget designers should design widgets. A Good Idea – With a Caveat, Hirer Beware I have no problem with this, and […]

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Hiring Star Performers Can Be a Mistake – The Dangers of Overhiring

By Michelle Malay Carter on May 7, 2008 

With all the buzz about hiring the best and the brightest, few people talk about the downside of overhiring. Overhiring Trumps Underhiring Our data shows one in five people is in a role that does not tap their full capacity, i.e. they’ve been overhired in a role. In contrast, only 15% are slotted in roles […]

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