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The Smart Work team (partners and network) has, through its long and varied experiences in business and in life, as well as through its association with Self Management Group, amassed its own "Smartworkepedia" of knowledge in the talent management domain. We offer these ruminations to you and encourage your feedback; we’d love to hear from you! If you'd care to comment on any of our Smart Thoughts please do so by clicking on the comment box.
Answering the Question, “Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?”
By Claire Kuhl
As a relative newcomer to the executive search world, my ears instantly perked up when my favorite NPR station broadcast an interview with William Poundstone, the author of a brand new book called Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
Add a commentCareer Fit for Natural Success
Jennifer Bergan, at 19, thought she was perfectly suited to teach. “To mold young minds for a successful world in the future.”
She knew it didn’t pay much but she was sure the adoration from those young people would certainly be reward enough.
Add a commentWhy Self-Management Really IS a Big Deal
Over the past few weeks, two different – but oddly intersecting – things happened that both reinforce the title of this post. First, I had a meeting with a mentoring client that sort of kicked this off. And second, a week or two after that conversation, I gave a short lecture about our assessments to an MBA entrepreneurial class, and their questions and concerns connected with the heart of the client meeting.
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Developing A Self-Managed, High –Performance Culture
BY Bob McHardy, C.L.U.
If you have any stake at all in the success of your enterprise, then you, like the hundreds of organizations we have worked with over the past 30 years, could likely benefit from learning how to develop a performance-based culture in your business.
Add a commentBy: Douglas Garner
As Peter Drucker once observed, “People determine the performance capacity of an organization. No organization can do better than the people it has.”
I have found through my over 30 years in human resources management that people are extremely complex and employees are even worse.
Add a commentI recently got involved in one of those ubiquitous web conversations – you know the kind: an expert poses a question, and “practitioners” from the biz world post their observations and recommendations. In this case, the moderator had posted a question (it was a management site, and I’ve changed some details): “Your company needs to hire new sales people directly out of college. How do you select the ones who can sell?”
Add a commentAs Stephen R. Covey made famous, “begin with the end in mind”.
If I learned nothing else from the Total Quality Management movement of the 1980’s and ‘90’s, it was the importance of knowing the definition of quality before designing the process for delivering it.
Add a commentBy Elbert Hubbard - 1899
In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain & the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain vastness of Cuba- no one knew where. No mail nor telegraph message could reach him. The President must secure his cooperation, and quickly.
Add a commentGreat Fit = True Engagement
Despite the fact that I think it’s largely a fad, the current obsession over “engagement” seems to be one thing I just can’t seem to leave alone (like the rest of the business world apparently!). Interestingly though, true engagement (or its lack) fits squarely into the “Why?” of Smart Work | Network.
Add a commentExecutive- “You know, you’d be good at …..”
Me -“You really think so? You must know what you are talking about. OK, you gotta deal!”
Hi, my name is Douglas Garner and that's the way I started my professional career(s)
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