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U.S. Business Review

Managing the People Value Chain

A year-long series for U.S. Business Review by Mark Brenner devoted to the challenges, easy wins and stakes associated with successful Talent Management. Read all 12 articles here.

A New Model for Building High-Performance Organizations

What are the building blocks of a high-performance culture that genuinely engage people? Read the entire article here. 

 

Mentoring's Role in Succession Planning

A thriving mentoring process requires an organizational culture that understands EQ and cultivates it first with its managers and executives. Read the entire article here.

  

Learning or Performance Enhancement?

To create a high-performance organization, learning leaders must focus on behavioral and interpersonal strategies. This always is accomplished one individual at a time. Read the entire article here.

 

Success or Failure? It Comes Down to Leadership Style

The difference between success and failure is leadership. While a command and control (C&C) leadership style erodes performance and initiative, an engagement and empowerment (E&E) leadership style fosters development of innovative potential and drives high performance. Read the entire article here.

It's All About the People: Change Management's Greatest Lever

Why do so many change initiatives fail? Basically, there are two reasons, and they are simply different sides of the same coin. On one side is a misplaced belief in the power of the cognitive – the ability to persuade by rational thought. On the other side are psychological barriers. They are the unavoidable human defenses, whose purpose is to combat disruption head-on, and are launched whenever someone or something alters the status quo for an individual or an organization. Read the entire article here.

Feet-to-the-Fire Executive Development

Without an impetus to change and grow, most executives probably won’t. Designing a process that maximizes the probability of achieving these changes is of the utmost importance. Once they see the need, they’ll make the necessary changes to excel. Read the entire article here.

Mergers and Acquisitions: Best Practices for Successful Integration

To play a leading role in transforming organizations, HR must move beyond its transactional role to help create a performance-centric culture. Read the entire article here.

 

More Than One Way to Approach Leadership Development

Many companies have embraced individual executive coaching and mentoring as key approaches to fuel their talent development initiatives. But these tools are not the only leadership development strategies available. Under certain business circumstances, they can even be imperfect solutions because they don’t address the real-world, group dynamics with which executives must contend. Read the entire article here.

 

 

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1/26/2010

Group Dynamics Can Enhance Leadership Development

Many companies have embraced individual executive coaching and mentoring as key approaches to fuel their talent development initiatives. But these tools are not the only leadership development strategies available.

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1/28/2009

Senior Consultant, Larry Gard, writes for Construction Today

It’s been said that one of the greatest challenges any business faces is growth. Perhaps more than any other aspect of running a business, growth requires consideration of an enormous number of objective and subjective elements, facts and unknowns, and things both within and outside of one’s control. Growth can be exciting, but few would describe it as inherently comfortable.

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10/7/2008

Debra Fish participates in Owen Entrepreneurship Center at Vanderbilt University

Debra Fish participated in a panel discussion on board development at an Owen Entrepreneurship Center recent event. Asked to bring perspective on the interpersonal dynamics of corporate boards, Dr. Fish highlighted the importance of emotional intelligence over and above the more technical expertise on which most director searches are based.

 

1/31/2008

Bob Drovdlic speaks at Talent Management Superconference

Bob Drovdlic spoke in at IQPC's Talent Management Superconference, March 31-April 1, 2008. The agenda focused on "Linking Talent Management Strategies to Growth Strategies."

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5/11/2007

tGCP Director, Bob Drovdlic, interviewed by NFIB

The National Federation of Independent Business is the leading advocacy organization representing small and independent businesses. A recent article in their online magazine about avoiding turnover highlights Bob Drovdlic's expertise in strategic hiring.

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Sell Your Business Your Way
Sell Your Business Your Way

tGCP's Mark Brenner & David Pellegrini highlight their expertise in two chapters of this ground-breaking guide for business owners.

Read Chapter 10: You're A Millionaire, Now What?

Family Business Magazine
Family Business Magazine

The very nature of family-owned businesses tends to encourage a focus on day-to-day tactics at the expense of systematic and disciplined strategy work. This article by Mark Brenner outlines the power of strategy in the family business. 

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American Venture

American Venture

Mark Brenner and Roza Rojdev make the case for why organizations must manage their talent like they manage their investments.

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