(Human) Resource Management

January 26, 2009

This blog was updated June 2025. Well, the numbers are crunched, sliced and diced, and our new research report on Resource Management Challenges has been posted on our website ... and while I can't say the results hold any big surprises, there are a few things I wanted to hold up and point at (whic

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Call Me Crazy ...

January 25, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

... but I seem to be facing the New Year - and the news cycle - with a sense of unreasonable optimism. Partly this is because I've been paging through all my favorite business and projects news sources deciding what to put in our blogroll (check it out in the right-hand column!) There are some reall

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2009: Thoughts from - and for - the C-Level

December 16, 2008 | by J. Kent Crawford

Whew! These are some challenging times. As I read the news daily I am struck by the fact that our economic woes are primarily management failures - failures in the areas of governance and strategy. This only inspires me to redouble my efforts to spread the word about integrating the strategic level

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More About those Glimmers in the Darkness

December 12, 2008 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

[NB to my Faithful Readers: Wednesday's post that was truncated has been corrected! If you missed the last couple paragraphs, they are up there now. Technical difficulties ... ! ] In yesterday's post, I alluded to headlines in

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Those Ups and Downs

December 10, 2008 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

One of my favorite scenes in movie history is from The Lion in Winter, which takes place at Christmas in the castle where Henry II (Peter O'Toole) has imprisoned his uppity spouse Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katherine Hepburn). In the midst of a raging domestic battle over the king's mistress and his succ

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