New Skills for a New Work Reality

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Pat Galagan

What skills will be in demand in the 2012 workplace? The answer depends on whom you ask and whose skills you're talking about. But the short answer is that no one escapes the need to acquire some new ones. More »

Why Innovation? Why Now?

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Pat Galagan

A young man we know recently made a career move some would find unthinkable. He left a software engineering job at Google to go to work for a little-known startup with few perks and no charisma to speak of. Among his reasons for making the switch was his sense that Goog... More »

The Burgeoning Metrics Market

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ASTD Staff

Blame it on the balanced scorecard. Though not the first to devise a business scorecard, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton set off a flurry of interest in people-related metrics with the publication of their 1996 book The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into... More »

What Worries CEOs Now?

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Pat Galagan

IBM's CEO Sam Palmisano sets the context this way: "In a very short time, we've become aware of global climate change; of the geopolitical issues surrounding energy and water supplies; of the vulnerabilities of supply chains for food, medicine, and even talent; and of s... More »