The Big Idea: 21st-Century Talent Spotting

Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Harvard Business Review, June 2014 As business becomes more volatile and complex, and the global market for top professionals gets tighter, this article’s author believes that organizations and their leaders must transition to what...

Ten Reasons Winners Keep Winning, Aside from Skill

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, HBR Blog Network, August 1, 2012 Whether the game involves competing every four years in the Olympics or every day in a business, winning brings advantages that make it easier to keep winning. This article’s author compared perpetual...

The craft of incentive prize design

Jesse Goldhammer, Kwasi Mitchell, Anesa “Nes” Parker, Brad Anderson and Sahil Joshi, Deloitte University Press, June 18, 2014 Incentive prizes, deceptively simple in concept, are often challenging to construct in a way that drives the desired outputs...

The Human Importance of the Monkey Selfie

Stuart N. Brotman, Brookings, August 12, 2014 Last week’s slow summer news was filled with monkeys and robots, breaking the usual pattern of having sharks grab the headlines each August. The two stories in combination actually raise an interesting and...