This summary is based on a conversation in Delhi, India with Sudhakar Moorthy, chief learning officer of Lanco, and Dinesh Bhasin, Lanco’s deputy head of learning and development. Founded in the early 1990s in Hyderabad, India, Lanco Infratech Limited (Lanco) ha... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital , Learning & Development

Competencies , Global Workforce Development , Human Performance Improvement , Leadership Development

Currently the face of the United States workforce reflects a cross section of generations from the traditionalists or radio babies born before 1948 to the Gen Y, or millennials, born after 1981. Traditionalists make up 8 percent of the workforce, boomers 44 percent, Gen... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital , Workforce Development

Coaching and Mentoring , Engagement , Global Workforce Development , Human Performance Improvement , Informal Learning

The information technology environment is experiencing a talent crisis, and the actions needed to combat it fall into the OD consulting camp. A president of a 1.3 billion IT provider describes the situation as follows: IT managers ask for a Ferrari, and then the IT spec... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital

Business Impact , Change Management , Global Workforce Development , Human Performance Improvement

Great teams are a pleasure to work with. They deliver great results, excite people to perform at peak levels, and become memorable role models for others. In a great team there is a collective push for excellence, for finishing, and for finding solutions to obstacles th... More »

Career Development , Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital

Business Impact , Career Development , Competencies , Engagement , Global Workforce Development , Human Performance Improvement , Leadership Development

In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor proposed a new and radically different approach to management known as scientific management (The Principles of Scientific Management, Dover Publications, 1998; first published by Harper & Brothers, NY, 1911). Taylors work was an at... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives , Workforce Development

Global Workforce Development , Human Performance Improvement , Leadership Development , Management Development