The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week
There were a lot of great blog posts this past week on the topics of leadership, talent management, and human resource management. We'd like to point you to five posts that we consider to be the best of the best for the week of November 10th to November 16th, 2008.
Frank Roche, Know HR: You Can't Threaten People to Be Happy - Frank shares a disturbing story about an HR department that is threatening it's employee to improve their level of morale and reminds us that you can't threaten people to be happy.
Nina Simosko: The Life of an Intrapreneur - Nina takes a look at what makes an intraprenuer - those "dreamers who do" and make things happen within an organization - and why they are so important to driving innovation within a company.
Steve Roesler, All Things Workplace: How to Create Creativity - Steve takes a look at creativity in the workplace and shares nine things that you can do to foster creativity in your organization.
Dr. Peter Vajda, Slow Leadership: How do you Define Success? - Dr. Vajda takes a look at the ever elusive definition of success and challenges you to ask yourself if you are living up to your own definition of success, or someone else's.
Art Petty on Management: Managing Resistance to Change - Art Petty reports on a great article from Quality Digest on managing resistance to change and offers his thoughts on this important topic.
Bonus HR Research Pick: Check out the Institute for Corporate Productivity's (i4cp) latest piece of research on the expected competition for top talent over the next five years.
