Talent Management
Are You A Magnet For Talent?
There's a talent crisis looming. Your best assets walk out the door every night, and you need leaders to help steer and guide the company through these unprecedented times. Unless you've been asleep ...
How Insurers Can Become Top Companies For Leaders
Strong leadership is more than a competitive advantage. It is what makes companies world-class. Today, the need for effective leadership is unprecedented. Many companies say they invest in talent, ...
Why Greed Isn’t Good
Imagine yourself betting on the long- term survival of two types of people. One is the classic egoist, focused and ruthless. The other is more selfless, willing to help fellow humans without any ...
AIG to Move Headquarters to Water Street; Eyes Shifting Jobs to Texas, Malaysia
American International Group Inc., the insurer that reinstated a dividend yesterday, will move its headquarters to a building it owns at 175 Water St. in lower Manhattan as the lease expires at a ...
How Topgrading Helped One Commercial Insurer Hire Nearly All ‘A’-Level Managers
Argo Group has nearly doubled its hiring of topnotch, "A"-level managers over the past five years, using a hiring protocol known as Topgrading—a rigorous process designed to eliminate much of the ...
Are You Hiring the Wrong Person?
Have you ever applied for a job and wondered why it is offered to someone who appears to be less qualified than you? A new study by Berkeley-Haas Associate Professor Don Moore finds employment ...
SEC Readies Rule on Disclosure of CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios
Public companies would be required to disclose how much more their chief executives are paid than rank-and-file workers under a rule to be proposed next month by U.S. securities regulators, according ...
Employee Personality Motivates Job Behavior, Not Carrots & Sticks: Univ. Study
Carrots and sticks have long been the favored tool for business managers looking to motivate their workers, whether it's to encourage with the promise of a raise, or to threaten with firing. But a ...