Thought Leadership Library

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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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.

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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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